Overview
Character Name
Sylvester Brown
Gender
Male
Young Adult
Supporting
Voice
Spoken
Vocal Range
Time & Place
A Chicago recording studio during the sweltering summer of 1927, at the height of the Blues era
Analysis
Ma Rainey’s nephew, and the only one she shows real affection for. He is an “Arkansas Country boy, the size of a fullback” (Wilson’s description). He has a terrible stutter, and when Ma Rainey insists that he does the introduction on the “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
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