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Ghosts behind the Sun : Memphis : splendor, enigma, & death /
- Title
- Ghosts behind the Sun : Memphis : splendor, enigma, & death / Tav Falco.
- Author
- Falco, Tav,
- Publication
- [London?] : Creation Books, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 310 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Tav Falco's sprawling study of Memphis begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends of Reconstruction-era Memphis to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld -- Beale Street kingpin Jim Canaan, Edward Crump's political machine, the Dixie Mafia, and others ... Interwoven with these accounts is an autobiographical history of Falco's own time in Memphis, including his involvement with performance art ensemble Insect Trust, working with pop/rock maverick Alex Chilton, and the formation of his seminal rock and roll band, Panther Burns."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Mondo Memphis ; v. 1
- Uniform Title
- Mondo Memphis ; v. 1.
- Subjects
- Rock musicians
- Musicians
- Falco, Tav
- Tennessee > Memphis
- Rock musicians > Tennessee > Memphis > Biography
- History
- Memphis (Tenn.) > History
- Autobiographie
- Biographies
- Sozialer Wandel
- Biography
- Falco, Tav 1950-
- Musicians > Tennessee > Memphis
- Manners and customs
- Geschichte 1864-2011
- Memphis (Tenn.) > Social life and customs
- Musikleben
- Memphis (Tenn.) > Biography
- Memphis, Tenn
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographie.
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Migrations, plagues, and lost causes -- Boss Crump don't allow and the Sublime Ouro -- Stirring up a little hell -- Big Dixie Brick Co. and the Insect Trust -- The fall of West Memphis and the rise of Charlie Feathers -- Ghosts behind the Sun -- Freedom ride -- Hop head rage -- Poets, Tillers, Outlaws, and the Iron Horsemen -- Behind the magnolia curtain -- Mudboy and the deconstruction of Panther Burns -- Jim Dickinson : godhead, guru, and übermensch -- Discourse of rage, conjuration, and exile.
- ISBN
- 1840681810
- 9781840681819
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library