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Disturbing the peace : Black culture and the police power after slavery / Bryan Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Bryan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- Legends--History and criticism.
- Legends.
- Ballads--History and criticism.
- Ballads.
- Police power--Southern States--History.
- Police power.
- Police-community relations--Southern States--History.
- Police-community relations.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.
- Contents:
- The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles
- The strange career of bras-coupe
- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department
- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674054769
- 0674054768
- OCLC:
- 648759726
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