Disturbing the Peace : : Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery / / Bryan Wagner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Wagner, Bryan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM IDA B. WELLS TO ROBERT CHARLES --; 2. THE STRANGE CAREER OF BRAS- COUPÉ --; 3. UNCLE REMUS AND THE ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT --; 4. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM GEORGE W. JOHNSON TO OZELLA JONES --; NOTES --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054769; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054769
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bryan Wagner.

W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.