Seems like murder here
Subtitle: southern violence and the blues tradition
By: Adam Gussow.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: 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; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: "I'm tore down"; title: Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition; title: "Make my getaway"; title: Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues; title: Dis(re)memberment blues; title: Narratives of abjection and redress; title: "Shoot myself a cop"; title: Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text; title: Guns, knives, and buckets of blood; title: The predicament of blues culture; title: "The blade already crying in my flesh"; title: Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives.