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Author:

Brown, Cecil, 1943-

Title:

Stagolee shot Billy / Cecil Brown.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Stagolee (Legendary character)
African Americans--Songs and music--History and criticism.
Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism.
Literature and folklore--United States.
African American criminals--Folklore.
African American men in literature.
African American men--Folklore.
Saint Louis (Mo.)--Folklore.
African Americans--Folklore.
Negers.
Liederen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-285) and index.

Contents:

Stagolee shot Billy -- Lee Shelton : the man behind the myth -- That bad pimp of old St. Louis : the oral poetry of the late 1890s -- "Poor Billy Lyons" -- Narrative events and narrated events -- Stagolee and politics -- Under the lid : the underside of the political struggle -- The Black social clubs -- Hats and nicknames : symbolic values -- Ragtime and Stagolee -- The blues and Stagolee -- Jim Crow and oral narrative -- Riverboat rouster and mean mate -- Work camps, hoboes, and shack bully hollers -- William Marion Reedy's white outlaw -- Cowboy Stagolee and hillbilly blues -- Blueswomen : Stagolee did them wrong -- Bluesmen and Black bad man -- On the trail of sinful Stagolee -- Stagolee in a world full of trouble -- From rhythm and blues to rock and roll : "I heard my bulldog bark" -- The toast : bad Black hero of the Black revolution -- Folklore/poplore : Bob Dylan's Stagolee -- The "bad nigger" trope in American literature -- James Baldwin's "Staggerlee wonders" -- Stagolee as cultural and political hero -- Stagolee and modernism.

ISBN:

9780674010567 (alk. paper)
0674010566 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2002192241

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)