Description
From Almeda To Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song by Stephen Kock, illustrations by Katherine Strause.
Going from A to Z across the decades and genres, this book illuminates a wide cross-section of Arkansas-connected women and musical styles, including gospel (Rosetta Tharpe), opera (Marjorie Lawrence), blues (Sippie Wallace), folk ballads (Almeda Riddle), dance-pop (Beth Ditto), classical (Florence Price), and country (K.T. Oslin), with surprises like Maya Angelou’s side career as a calypso singer; Eva Ware Barnett, who wrote the official state song; and Carrie Rivers Cash, who enabled the musical career of her son, Johnny Cash.