Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition
by
Gussow, Adam.
Title
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Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition
Author
:
Gussow, Adam.
Personal Author
:
Gussow, Adam.
Publication Information
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Physical Description
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xiv, 341 p.
Contents
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"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.
Subject Term
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African Americans -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
Blues (Music) -- Southern States -- History.
Blues (Music) in literature.
Violence in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Violence -- Southern States -- History.
Geographic Term
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Southern States -- Intellectual life.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Corporate Author
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ProQuest (Firm)
Electronic Access
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| Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Shelf Location | Holding Information |
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| E185.92 .G87 2002 | 963191-1001 | Ebook Central | Ebook Central | |