Deadly Woman Blues Black Women and Australian music

by Walker, Clinton

• ISBN13: 9781742235660
• ISBN10: 1742235662
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-07-01
• Publisher: NewSouth

Summary

Deadly Woman Blues, stunning, original and brimming with life, is the first of its kind. Part art book, part comic book, part biography and fully deadly, it is a unique graphic history of the black women who made Australian music. In this album of portraits, the long-awaited follow-on from Clinton Walker’s classic Buried Country, more than one hundred amazing artists are reborn. Starring Georgia Lee, Nellie Small, Candy Devine, Wilma Reading, Sibby Doolan, Ruby Hunter, Marlene Cummins, Tiddas, Carole Fraser, Christine Anu, Jessica Mauboy, Emma Donovan, Shellie Morris, Leah Flanagan, Crystal Mercy and many, many more singers and musicians, Deadly Woman Bluesis a story full of tears and joy, always beautiful and heroic.

Author Biography

Clinton Walker has been called "our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture by Sydney’s Sun-Herald. Born in Bendigo in 1957, he is an art school drop-out and recovering rock critic who has published nine books, and has worked extensively in television as well as journalism. His previous titles include Buried Country, Inner City Sound, Golden Miles, and History is Made at Night, and the global best-seller biography of Bon Scott, Highway to Hell.