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BOOKS ABOUT WOMEN & MUSIC
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Lottie Collins (1866-1910) was a British music hall entertainer best known for her skirt dancing while singing Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay! The tune is very familiar - think Howdy Doody. Collins was sister-in-law to soprano Maggie Teyte.
• Dance posters
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Célestine Galli-Marié in the role of Carmen in 'Carmen'
• more Carmen posters
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Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, was a composer and pianist of considerable skill. She married painter Wilhelm Hensel, and as her father instructed her, “Music . . . for you it can and must be only an ornament”.
b. 11-14-1805; Hamburg
d. 5-14-1847
• Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr (The Year)
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Lillian Russell
née Helen Louise Leonard
b. 12-4-1860; Clinton, IA
d. 6-2-1922; Pennsylvania
Lillian Russell, as one of the best known and popular entertainers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the first voice to be carried over Alexander Graham Bell's long distance telephone lines - she sang in New York to audiences in Boston and Washington, D.C., May 8, 1890.
Russell was also an advocate of women's suffrage (her mother was the first woman to run for mayor of New York City), and did Marine recruitment and fundraising for the United States World War I effort.
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Sophie Tucker (Sophia Abuza nee Kalish) was a very popular American vaudeville singer and comedienne with occcasional film roles.
Famous quote: "I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better."
b. 11-13-1884; Russia
d. 2-9-1966; US
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Ethel Waters
b. 10-31-1896, Chester, PA
d. 9-1-1977, CA
Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, into unhappy circumstances. Her mother was just 12 years old, and Waters was raised in poverty in Philadelphia by her grandmother. Still in her teens, Ethel was already divorced and working as a chambermaid for $4.75 a week when her friends convinced her to sing at an amateur night competition at a local club. She won first prize and a steady job, and soon she was performing on the black vaudeville circuit. She was billed as "Sweet Mama Stringbean" because she was tall and skinny.
Waters began to record blues songs at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance in 1919, and by 1921 she was a huge star. Her single "Down Home Blues" sold more than 500,000 copies in six months, and she drew rave reviews for her Broadway appearances in two important black revues, Africana and Blackbirds of 1928. But she never lived in luxury. In fact, she gave away most of her money to Harlem's poor. "There's an old saying that charity begins at home," she said, "and all Harlem is home to me."
Ethel Waters career lasted much longer than the Harlem Renaissance itself. She remained a popular stage, screen, and radio actress for many years. In the early 1950s, she played the title role on the television show Beulah – the first national TV show that featured an African American as its main character. Waters also received two Academy Award nominations for her work in the movies Pinky (1938) and A Member of the Wedding (1953), and she wrote two autobiographies. She died in 1977.
• more Harlem Renaissance posters
• more Black Entertainers posters
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A Courtisan with a Shamisen
• Japan posters
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Women Who Dared I Composite Poster
available at-
AllPosters.com
Art.com
• who is in the poster?
composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach; opera singer Marian Anderson
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