Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.Description: 341 pISBN: - 0226310973
- 0226310981
- 9780226310978
- 9780226310985
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Intellectual life
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Blues (Music) -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- 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
- E185.92 G982 S 2002
English Books
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | E185.92 G982 S 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000361502 |
"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.
HKBU library
YT2025 M08
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