Editing Ma Rainey (section)

== In popular culture==
[[Sterling A. Brown]] wrote the poem "Ma Rainey" in 1932, about how "When Ma Rainey / comes to town" people everywhere would hear her sing. In 1981, Sandra Lieb wrote the first full-length book about Rainey, ''Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lieb|first=Sandra|title=Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey|publisher=University of Massachusetts|year=1981|isbn=9780870233340}}</ref>

''[[Ma Rainey's Black Bottom]]'', a 1982 play by [[August Wilson]], is a fictionalized account of a recording of her song of the same title set in 1927. [[Theresa Merritt]] and [[Whoopi Goldberg]] starred as Rainey in the Original and Revival Broadway productions, respectively. [[Viola Davis]] portrayed Rainey in the [[Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (film)|2020 film adaptation]] of the play and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]].<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Benjamin |title=Netflix releases trailer for Chadwick Boseman's final movie |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/19/chadwick-boseman-final-movie-trailer-netflix |access-date=October 24, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=October 18, 2020}}</ref>

[[Mo'Nique]] played Rainey in the 2015 television film ''[[Bessie (film)|Bessie]]'' about the life of Bessie Smith, for which she earned a nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 16, 2015|title=Mo'Nique on Emmy Nomination for 'Bessie,' Lee Daniels' 'Empire' Snub: 'What You Put Out Is What You Get Back'|url=https://www.thewrap.com/monique-on-emmy-nomination-for-bessie-lee-daniels-empire-snub-what-you-put-out-is-what-you-get-back/|access-date=December 4, 2020|website=The Wrap|language=en-US}}</ref>