Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis

Author:Angela Y. Davis [Davis, Angela Y.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307574442
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Holiday’s own autobiographical reflections about that moment in her life, interestingly, draw a distinction between the mass recognition she had already achieved and the financial success she desired:

I opened Café Society as an unknown; I left two years later as a star. But you couldn’t tell the difference from what I had in my sock. I was still making that same old seventy-five dollars a week. I had made more than that in Harlem. I needed the prestige and publicity all right, but you can’t pay rent with it.5

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