Summary: This week we're watching one of the most powerful and moving films we've seen in recent memory: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Also discussed: blues music, the plays of August Wilson, and Chani Nicholson's book, You Were Born For This.    Show notes:   You're Wrong About Podcast - Quarantine Deep Dive: Jessica Simpson's "Open Book"    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Liberating Power of Music (Atlantic)  

Recommendations: Andrea W.: You Were Born For This by Chani Nicholson (book or audiobook) Andrea G.: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought To Screen (Netflix documentary)

Lisa:  Wine Girl by Victoria James (book)

Music credits:

"Flutterbee" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive  CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed: "OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

 

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