@article{1481574, recid = {1481574}, author = {Wagner, Bryan,}, title = {Disturbing the Peace : Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery /}, pages = {1 online resource (320 p.)}, abstract = {W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1481574}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054769}, }