TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gussow,Adam
TI  - Seems like murder here: southern violence and the blues tradition 
SN  - 0226310973
AV  - E185.92 G982 S 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Blues (Music) in literature
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Violence
KW  - History
KW  - Race relations
N1  - "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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