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NME to launch Ma Rainey’s Melody Maker, an immersive site celebrating Netflix’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

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17.12.2020 - 14:35

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NME hailed as “a fitting swansong for Chadwick Boseman, who gives a beautifully nuanced performance in a story that deftly explores racial inequality in the music industry.” It’s one hot, sweaty, music-filled journey into 1920s Chicago, where the blues is booming but the players are struggling against problems and attitudes that feel all-too relevant today. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which premieres on Netflix on December 18 (Friday), is the must-watch movie of the Christmas holidays.To celebrate the release of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, we’re giving NME readers the chance to voyage back in time to the film’s 1927 setting by reviving NME’s sister publication Melody Maker as a site-within-a-site – and you can check it out for yourself.

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