1. Robert Bowman, Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records (New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1997), 144.
2. Dorian Lynskey, 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2010), 150.
3. David P. Szatmary, Rockin’ in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-Roll (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004), 173.
4. For additional information on the methodology informing the use of textual analysis in this chapter, please see Angela Y. Davis on Blues women and the post–World War I and interwar period, Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (New York City, NY: Random House Inc., 1998).
5. Mark Anthony Neal, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and the Black Public Culture (New York City, NY: Routledge, 1999), 42–44, 51–53, 88–90.