Portraits of five black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change. Includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.
- ISBN10 0140377476
- ISBN13 9780140377477
- Publish Date 27 February 1997 (first published 21 January 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Puffin Books
- Edition REV ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English