Bessie Smith (1894-1937) was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. In the beginning, Smith performed on the streets with her brother, to raise money for her impoverished home, but in 1912, she got her big break as a dancer after her brother returned home with the Stokes troupe and arranged an audition for her with the managers. Smith worked for several years in the early 1920s as the star of the musical How Come? and signed to Columbia records in 1923. She recorded about 160 songs with Columbia, and those songs often featured some famous musicians of the time, including Louis Armstrong, James Price Johnson, Charlie Green, and Fletcher Henderson.
Smith’s song “’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,” expresses her belief in doing what you please, despite others’ opinions because no matter what you do, someone will always be there to criticize you for doing it.
This song embodies the era because a theme that ran through some of the work during the Harlem Renaissance was a sense of identity. The artists wanted to express themselves freely, no matter what the white public or even the black public thought.
Smith’s song “’Tain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do,” expresses her belief in doing what you please, despite others’ opinions because no matter what you do, someone will always be there to criticize you for doing it.
This song embodies the era because a theme that ran through some of the work during the Harlem Renaissance was a sense of identity. The artists wanted to express themselves freely, no matter what the white public or even the black public thought.
Lyrics to "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do":
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