Dr. Kimberly Mack, UToledo assistant professor of English, discusses how Ma Rainey \u2014 known as the “Mother of the Blues” \u2014challenged convention on her way to becoming an icon. Rainey is the subject of a Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson\u2019s 1982 play “Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom” that debuted on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n
Read: Ma Rainey Is Best Known as a Pioneer of the Blues. But She Broke More Than Musical Barriers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Kimberly Mack, UToledo assistant professor of English, discusses how Ma Rainey \u2014 known as the “Mother of the Blues” \u2014challenged convention on her way to becoming an icon. Rainey is the subject of a Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson\u2019s 1982 play “Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom” that debuted on Dec. 18. Read: Ma Rainey …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[122],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63504,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63503\/revisions\/63504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}