Seems like murder here [electronic resource] : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.

By: Gussow, AdamContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002Description: xiv, 341 pISBN: 9780226311005 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Violence -- Southern States -- History | Southern States -- Intellectual life | Southern States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 781.643/0975 LOC classification: E185.92 | .G87 2002Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.

"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.

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