Research Catalog

Title

Seems like murder here [electronic resource] : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.

Author

Gussow, Adam.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xiv, 341 p.)

Uniform Title

Seems like murder here (Online)

Alternative Title

Seems like murder here (Online)

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2002014388

OCLC

ssj0000427914

Author

Gussow, Adam.

Title

Seems like murder here [electronic resource] : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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