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Dorsey, Thomas Andrew (Georgia Tom)
A brief biography of Dorsey from Oxford Music Online.
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
This ebook, available through the Black Thought and Culture database, contains the lyrics to several blues compositions by Dorsey and his contemporaries. The author "shows us how the roots of that form in the blues must be viewed not only as a musical tradition but as a life-sustaining vehicle for an alternative black working-class collective memory and social consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American middle-class values."
Gospel Songs and Gospel Singing
From "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 9: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs," available through Black Thought and Culture.
On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing
An article available through JSTOR that discusses Mahalia Jackson's music in the context of her origins in New Orleans, including her collaboration with Dorsey.