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Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen, October 2004
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FLORENCE MILLS: HARLEM JAZZ QUEEN
By: Bill Egan

Biography of lost jazz singer

Studies in Jazz
Scarecrow Press
October 2004
Featuring: Florence Mills
368 pages
ISBN: 0810850079
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

This biography reveals the lost history of the life of the first Black female international superstar. Mills was lionized by the crowned heads in Europe and opened doors for generations of Black female stars from Lena Horn to Diana Ross. Although her career and shows changed the nature of Black entertainment, and thereby the wider American popular culture, she was largely forgotten in later years. Anyone who wants to understand the history of Black entertainment from Bert Williams to Michael Jackson and, by implication, the history of American popular culture, needs to understand the ways in which Florence Mills changed the rules forever.

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