What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music

by Steve Bergsman, Lillian Walker-Moss (Foreword by)

Overview

A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock 'n' roll

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496844965
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	10/30/2023
Series:	American Made Music Series
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Steve Bergsman (Author)
Steve Bergsman is a longtime journalist who has written over a dozen books. His most recent books are a biography of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and, as coauthor, Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Lillian Walker-Moss (Foreword by)
Lillian Walker-Moss was an original member of the 1960s girl group the Exciters, who recorded such popular songs as "Tell Him," "You Got the Power," and "Do Wah Diddy Diddy." She currently sings with the Super Girls.

Editorial Reviews

Balancing the biographical and the historical, this informative and stylishly written work illuminates the lives and contributions of these gifted performers. For popular-music lovers.--Carol J. Binkowski "Library Journal (starred review)"

A singular look and fully researched account of the women singers who were trailblazers in the early 1950s as R&B evolved into rock 'n' roll.--Aaron Cohen, author of Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power and Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace"

An encyclopedic history that conveys important contributions of individual artists as well as the collective body of women singers.--Frank Matheis, contributing writer for Living Blues, publisher of thecountryblues.com, and coauthor of Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues

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