Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition /
Adam Gussow.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- 341 p.
"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
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African Americans--Intellectual life.--Southern States African Americans--Social conditions.--Southern States Blues (Music)--History and criticism.--Southern States Blues (Music) in literature. Violence in literature. Race relations in literature. American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. Violence--History.--Southern States
Southern States--Intellectual life. Southern States--Race relations.