An edition of Seems like murder here: southern violence and the blues tradition
(2002)
Seems like murder here
southern violence and the blues tradition
by Adam Gussow
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Intellectual life, African Americans, History, Race relations, History and criticism, Race relations in literature, Violence in literature, Violence, American literature, Social conditions, African American authors, Blues (Music), Blues (Music) in literature, African americans, intellectual life, African americans, social conditions, Blues (music), American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Southern states, intellectual life, Southern states, race relationsPlaces
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Seems like murder here: southern violence and the blues tradition
2002, University of Chicago Press
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
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