If you like Ma Rainey's black bottom

Ma Rainey's black bottom
August Wilson

Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.…

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