Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / / Adam Gussow.
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 341 p. |
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Table of 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.