Seems like murder here [electronic resource] : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
2002
E185.92 .G87 2002eb
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Title
Seems like murder here [electronic resource] : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
Author
Gussow, Adam.
ISBN
0226310973 (alk. paper)
0226310981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226310985
9780226311005 (e-book)
0226310981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226310985
9780226311005 (e-book)
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
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E185.92 .G87 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.643/0975
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
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Table of Contents
"I'm tore down"
Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition
"Make my getaway"
Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues
Dis(re)memberment blues
Narratives of abjection and redress
"Shoot myself a cop"
Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text
Guns, knives, and buckets of blood
The predicament of blues culture
"The blade already crying in my flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives.
Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition
"Make my getaway"
Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues
Dis(re)memberment blues
Narratives of abjection and redress
"Shoot myself a cop"
Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text
Guns, knives, and buckets of blood
The predicament of blues culture
"The blade already crying in my flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives.