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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, [2014]

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Description

303 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]

Alternative Title

Memphis : splendor, enigma, & death

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
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

OCLC

ocn726821603
726821603
SCSB-9663378

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library