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Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White By Kimberly Mack. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

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Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White By Kimberly Mack. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2023

Lydia Warren
Lydia Warren*
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Fairmont State University, Fairmont, West Virginia, USA
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 88 - 91
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Music

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