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A 4 page paper which examines the relationship between whites and blacks in August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Piano Lesson.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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are people, men and women, caught in a society that is ultimately controlled by white people, but yet people who are very unique unto themselves. One critic notes that, "Remarkably,
Wilson has been able to explore and communicate the American black experience while also achieving a universality that attracts the white audiences needed for commercial success" (Peoples Theatre). With this
in mind the following paper examines the relationship between whites and blacks in August Wilsons "Ma Rainerys Black Bottom" and "The Piano Lesson." Ma Raineys Black Bottom "Ma Raineys
Black Bottom, the explosive drama that put August Wilson on the American theater map, takes place in a Chicago recording studio on a cold day in 1927 and is
based very loosely on an aspect of the career of Gertrude Ma Rainey, often called the mother of the blues and a popular recording artist in the twenties" (Peoples Theatre).
The plot of the story is that the band is waiting in a recording studio for the arrival of Ma so that they can commence recording, and perhaps making a
name for themselves in a white mans world. The focus of the story is not necessarily on Ma Rainey, but on the band members who are waiting for her. The
focus of the story is also not necessarily on making music, but rather on the segregated and isolated and oppressed position these men find themselves in: "As the diva keeps
them and the white studio owner waiting to begin the session, the men vent their frustrations, reveal their pasts, share their dreams, and play some music" (Peoples Theatre). In
this play there is a powerful sense of oppression, but that is also part of the blues. There is also a powerful sense of hope, hope that is represented in
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