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050 00 $aPS478$b.B76 2003
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100 1 $aBrown, Cecil,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82024028
245 10 $aStagolee shot Billy /$cCecil Brown.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2003.
300 $aviii, 296 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-285) and index.
520 1 $a"This story was never meant to by sandwiched between the covers of a book, as neat lines of prose. In 1895 a man called "Stag" Lee Shelton shot a man called Billy Lyons in a St. Louis bar. A black-on-black crime that scarcely made headlines. But this story, turned into a song, is one that black Americans have never tired of repeating and reliving. This tale of dignity and death, violence and sex, has been given countless forms by artists ranging from Ma Rainey to the Clash.".
520 8 $a"Billy died because he touched another man's five-dollar Stetson. Or was it because he cheated at a card game? Or was it because the antagonists straddled the great American fault line of race at the time the earth was shifting - at the time a strange, almost conspiratorial war was raging in St. Louis between traditional black Republicans and a renegade faction aligned with the traditionally racist Democratic party?
520 8 $aA small portion of this story has been told again and again, generation after generation, but few, till now have known what the whole story was.".
520 8 $a"Novelist and scholar Cecil Brown explores this legend from what was in those days the second city of America, gateway between East and West and North and South: St. Louis. Though bits of actual history have been associated with the song, the true story - told in its entirety for the first time in this book - is more complex, more deeply rooted, than anything anyone would ever dare to invent. It tells of the first generation of free black men, crushed by a Genteel America that was both black and white.
520 8 $aIt tells of the wild place this country was in the nineteenth century - so wild that the inhabitants of the twentieth century could take it only in small doses and needed to forget. Now it can be told in full."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aStagolee (Legendary character)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002010734
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xMusic$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100204
650 0 $aBallads, English$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009116605
650 0 $aLiterature and folklore$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAfrican American criminals$vFolklore.
650 0 $aAfrican American men in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93007967
650 0 $aAfrican American men$vFolklore.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xFolklore.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001953
651 0 $aSaint Louis (Mo.)$vFolklore.
852 00 $boff,mus$hPS478$i.B76 2003
852 00 $bbar$hPS478$i.B76 2003