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Bessie Smith

Bessie's Artifacts

External Text Structures

Bessie's Artifacts

On the article that I'm reading about Bessie Smith, some of the external text structures are:

  • Bessie was a

singer in the

1920's (jazz age)

  • Bessie was the only women that had the best vocals in the 1920's
  • One of Bessie's schedule concert
  • Bessie Smith's tomb stone
  • Two of her famous records

Bessie Smith's

Contribution

  • Headings

a short phrase describing what the succeeding section is all about

  • Underlined words

a section of text in a document where the words have a line running beneath them, underlined text is commonly used to help draw attention to text

Bessie Smith helped pioneer the genre of blues music and propel it into popular culture.

  • Bessie Smith died in a car accident
  • Bessie Smith performing live on stage
  • Bessie & her Brother
  • Bessie Smith & her Husband

Bessie's Inference

Bessie Smith's Sources

Trivial Facts

Bessie Smith website

  • Bessie Smith biography

Bessie Smith book

  • Queen of the blues

Subject & Verb

Pronoun & Antecedent

By Bessie Smith's appearance she looks like a strong, independent women. She was the only women that had the best vocals around that time. When her father died, her and her brother took matter to their own hands and went out in the streets. She sang and danced while her brother played the guitar. With this strategy they both earned money for their impoverished household. She would be a great role model.

Bessie Smith's Audio

  • Born on April 15, 1894. At Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • Died on September 26, 1937 (age of 43) At Clarksdale, Mississippi
  • Married to Jack Gee on June 7, 1923.

Bessie Smith formed her own act around 1913, at Atlanta's "81" Theater.

  • Subject: Bessie Smith
  • Verb: formed

Bessie Smith was signed to Columbia Records in 1923 by Frank Walker, a talent agent who had seen her perform years earlier.

  • Pronoun: her
  • Antecedent: Bessie Smith

Alondra Muler Ortiz

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