TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gussow,Adam
TI  - Seems like murder here: southern violence and the blues tradition 
SN  - 9780226311005 (electronic bk.)
AV  - E185.92 .G87 2002eb
U1  - 781.643/0975 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Blues (Music)
KW  - History
KW  - Blues (Music) in literature
KW  - Violence in literature
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Violence
KW  - Fine Arts
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Genres & Styles
KW  - Blues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Soul & R 'n B
KW  - gtt
KW  - Rassenkonflikt
KW  - swd
KW  - Gewalttätigkeit
KW  - Race relations
KW  - USA
KW  - Südstaaten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in this provocative study as vital responses to spectacle lynchings and the violent realities of African American life in the Jim Crow South. With brilliant interpretations of both classic songs and literary works, from the autobiographies of W.C. Handy, David Honeyboy Edwards, and B.B. King to the poetry of Langston Hughes and the novels of Zora Neal
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