Gussow, Adam. <br/><br/>
Seems like murder here  southern violence and the blues tradition /  [electronic resource] : 
Adam Gussow. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2002. 
 - xiv, 341 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226311005 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Intellectual life.--Southern States<br/>African Americans--Social conditions.--Southern States<br/>Blues (Music)--History.--Southern States<br/>Blues (Music) in literature.<br/>Violence in literature.<br/>Race relations in literature.<br/>American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.<br/>Violence--History.--Southern States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Southern States--Intellectual life.<br/>Southern States--Race relations.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185.92  / .G87 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>781.643/0975