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Author:

Gussow, Adam.

Title:

Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xiv, 341 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Southern States--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
Blues (Music)--Southern States--History.
Blues (Music) in literature.
Violence in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
Violence--Southern States--History.
Southern States--Intellectual life.
Southern States--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780226310985 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226310981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226310978 (alk. paper)
0226310973 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50598253

LCCN:

2002014388

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)