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

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

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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 accoun...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Wagner, Bryan,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2009
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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