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Article: Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2007
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Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams. By Tammy L. Kernodle. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. 348 pp.
Women & Music readers who are interested in jazz history have surely noticed the ubiquitous "Mary Lou Williams Paragraph" as it appears in countless documentaries, textbooks, and other sweeping representations of jazz history. With a teensy-weensy bit of exaggeration, it goes something like this:
Although jazz is primarily a man's world (except for singers who
are tragic and don't know what they're doing), one woman excelled,
thus proving the meritocracy of jazz. The child prodigy known as
"The Little Piano Girl of ...