Show a "1 J NO 8A TEAR-STAINE- Standard-Examin- Monday April 7 1980 er PORTRAIT D Black Stranded Women Sang 'Independent ' Blues By ELLIE GROSSMAN NEW YORK (NEA) — They sang the blues in the ’20s and ’30s because they were poor black and stranded in the South They couldn’t go North to work the assembly lines or the mines because they weren’t allowed to ride the freight trains And even if they got there they wouldn’t have been hired because they were women So they stayed South and did white women’s housework (which they couldn’t do up North because Irish women who’d fled the potato famine years before were doing that) and watched their men heading North to do what they couldn’t So they sang the blues — but not just the way you think Says Rosetta Reitz 55 a lifelong New York jazz buff and collector “The blues records reissued in the ’60s always show these women lamenting being abandoned but this is an historic distortion The women who recorded the blues — and I have cards on 26 of them — didn't just sing about lost love” They sang about the joy of life too “One of the most significant elements in the blues is humor” she says And they celebrated their sexual independence boldly “The only selfesteem they had was in their private lives” she says “These were working women who were outwardly very dependent on men as employers but they were the lowest of the low totem pole so they had on the to lose by exulting in their bodies” nothing not That’s quite the picture handed down of Bessie Smith Ida Cox Sippi Wallace (81 and still living in Detroit) and the other classic blues singers But that’s because up to now she says men had done the painting socio-econom- independent Womb's Blues Volume then” tear-staine- ROSETTA REITZ: “I’d been writing a book about these women and I realized people might think I was making up the songs to make my points because many of these records had been hidden So I decided to put out a reissued series of my own called the Women’s Heritage Series” Price War Should Benefit Travelers only $12 more than the and with no restricairlines major tions Even as this is written more price competition cuts are expected to be announced It pays to shop around and ask for the cheapest super-es- t fare available fare to coast-to-coa- st When you’re shopping don’t overlook the lesser known lines such as World Airways Air Florida and Texas International (to name a few) If World is giving the big airlines business (and fits on the to Hawaii) Air Florida and Texas International are giving them conniptions in the Florida and southwest coast-to-coa- cut their much ballyhooed super fares So they cut to the bone and offered a new Super Saver fare for as little as S298 round trip World countered with a S50 bonus coupon if you flew round trip Fly out on the regular bargain are (S180 or one half 33601 and get a 350 discount coupon to use on your return This st markets Air Florida’s round trip special fair with no restrictions from Washington DC to Miami is $152 The major airlines charge $145 round trip but you have to fly after 9 pm book 7 days in advance and stay away a certain length of time Texas International is offering a st coast-to-coa- FELLERS LITTLE some you had to fly after 9 pm) The majors also limit their super fare seats on each plane World doesn’t There was consternation in the major airlines’ executive offices They couldn’t let a pipsqueak airline undercoast-to-coa- $310 st BATTLE routes such as crossmajornorth-soutinto Florida or or country the Southwest the major airlines are fighting the smaller airlines’ fares as soon as they’re announced is a World Airways r atmosprice-wacase in point The phere was made possible after the Civil Aeronautics Board “deregulated” the fare system It declared that any airline with a few exceptions could fly anywhere and charge whatever it felt would do the trick This has caused all sorts of upheavals in the air travel business On h fare-cuttin- Seatbelts Could Save Lives of Young Children seriousthousand are Parents are involved in campaigns across America to raise funds to wipe out ly mobile accidents at eliminating the of biggest killer them all — motor vehicle accidents Statistics show that highway mishaps are the No 1 scourge of children 14 and under in this country worse than the highly publicized Reye’s Syndrome or multiple sclerosis or cancer But the same pa- only - 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Invisible Art series of “peanut fares” at considerable discount For example you can fly from Baltimore to Los Angeles (or vice versa) round trip for $292 which is $6 cheaper than the major airlines Super Saver and there are no restrictions Texas International also offers a fare from Dallas to Denver (or the other way around) for only $39 No major airline can touch that effectively —reduced the round trip Several small airlines have challenged the giants to a price war and you the air traveler should benefit Little World Airways had the auround-tri- p dacity to offer a — S360 as the same fare for the major airlines’ Super Saver fare But World’s special fare had no restrictions On the majors you had to book 7 days in advance and plan to stay over at least one Saturday (on since male record producers were selecting the material “They obviously chose to ignore songs that wTere insulting the men in favor of the moe flattering ones” Which red sulted in the portrait of the man her female pining for Two years ago Ms Reitz set about retouching the picture “I’d been writing a book about these women” she says “and I realized people might think I was making up the song to make my points because many of these records had been hidden So I decided to put out a reissued series of my own called the Women’s Heritage Series” The first two albums “Mean Mothers” and “Women’s Railroad Blues” on Rosetta Records are now available in stores around the country and she plans 32 more All she says show “the contribution of women to jazz our only indigenous art” and several like the first represent the blues singer as a woman calling the shots with gusto rather than reeling from them That’s what attracted Ms Reitz to the blues in the first place “There was a decade in my life from 40 to 50 when I had to support my children by myself with various jobs and it was a time when I needed to be nurtured “I’d come home at night exhausted to three daughters who were too young to cook supper and then I’d do the wash help with the homework and listen to their problems” No one said take heart you’ll survive ex And ic By PETER WEAVER cept the black women whose voices lifted her over the burdens “I’d put the music on as soon as I got home” she says “and the feeling in their voices sustained me But the lyrics were often embarrassing They’d sing things like ‘I’ll fall down on my knees and be your slave’ But as I hunted around I found these women had also sung ‘independent’ blues which were even more nurturing and I decided to retrieve this lost history first through the book (unfinished) and now the “Records reissued from the ’20s and ’30s were reproduced to show the past accomplishments of the great male jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong who were just playing backup behind the classic women blues singers K4jrMu1 CvT' 3L30) in j ' wa Shopping Center |