06 Kate Molleson on 'Bessie Smith'
Kate and Jude discuss the book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
Songbook: The White Rabbit Podcast · Orion Publishing Ltd.
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Show Notes
Writer and BBC Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson joins Jude to talk about the book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay.
As well as digging into the life of Bessie they also discuss how music provides solace, childhood encounters with music, whether women are allowed to be straight up authorities on music, radical lyrics and the complications of discussing a female musician’s clothes.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson https://bit.ly/3bZkZC2
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels https://uk.bookshop.org/books/us-conductors/9781408868690
The Musical Life of Gustav Mole by Kathryn Meyrick https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-musical-life-of-gustav-mole/9780859533331
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay https://bit.ly/3wddpuF
You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929
Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo
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