Jeffrey St. Clair

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Sun Dec 20 16:45:09 +0000 2020

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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch

RT @TerryTeachout1: It fascinates me that August Wilson claimed to have neither seen nor read any plays by Chekhov before writing "Ma Raine… — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the crucial scenes in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom depicts Paramount refusing to provide Ma with a cold Coke. The play unscrolls as a kind of performance rider, itemizing the studio's unfulfilled contractual obligations, until the ultimate ripoff at the end... — PolitiTweet.org

Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson spent two weeks recording in Grafton, Wisconsin, for Paramount in 1930. According to h… https://t.co/WejGr4vv7i

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I don't know if Wilson it based on a real incident. But Paramount recorded Rainey & part of her contract in the play required her to be provided w/ "an ice cold Coke." When it wasn't she stopped recording, one of the small acts of black artists asserting what power they had — PolitiTweet.org

@JSCCounterPunch That doesn't square with the history of Paramount in Grafton. Artists could order whatever they wa… https://t.co/x83IDu5p00

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