TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Hettie TI - Big star fallin' mama: five women in Black music SN - 0670856215 AV - ML82 .J65 1995 U1 - 782.42/1643/092B PY - 1995/// CY - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. PB - Viking KW - African American women musicians KW - Juvenile literature KW - Blues (Music) KW - History and criticism KW - Musicians KW - African Americans KW - Biography N2 - 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 ER -