Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
2002
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Description
xiv, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
0226310973 alkaline paper
0226310981 paperback alkaline paper
9780226310985
9780226311005 e-book
0226310981 paperback alkaline paper
9780226310985
9780226311005 e-book
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