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Seems like murder here : Southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gussow, Adam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Blues (Music)--Southern States--History.
- Blues (Music).
- Blues (Music) in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Violence--Southern States--History.
- Violence.
- Southern States--Intellectual life.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in this provocative study as vital responses to spectacle lynchings and the violent realities of African American life in the Jim Crow South. With brilliant interpretations of both classic songs and literary works, from the autobiographies of W. C. Handy, David Honeyboy Edwards, and B. B. King to the poetry of Langston Hughes and the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Seems Like Murder Here will transform our understanding of the blues and its enduring power.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612538438
- 9781282538436
- 1282538438
- 9780226311005
- 0226311007
- OCLC:
- 615626818
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