Seems Like Murder Here
Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
360 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2002
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. "I’m Tore Down"
Lynching and the Birth of a Blues Tradition
2. "Make My Getaway"
Southern Violence and Blues Entrepreneurship in W. C. Handy’s Father of the Blues
3. Dis(Re)memberment Blues
Narratives of Abjection and Redress
4. "Shoot Myself a Cop"
Mamie Smith’s "Crazy Blues" as Social Text
5. Guns, Knives, and Buckets of Blood
The Predicament of Blues Culture
6. "The Blade Already Crying in My Flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston’s Blues Narratives
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. "I’m Tore Down"
Lynching and the Birth of a Blues Tradition
2. "Make My Getaway"
Southern Violence and Blues Entrepreneurship in W. C. Handy’s Father of the Blues
3. Dis(Re)memberment Blues
Narratives of Abjection and Redress
4. "Shoot Myself a Cop"
Mamie Smith’s "Crazy Blues" as Social Text
5. Guns, Knives, and Buckets of Blood
The Predicament of Blues Culture
6. "The Blade Already Crying in My Flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston’s Blues Narratives
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Society for the Study of Southern Literature: C. Hugh Holman Award
Won
Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc.: John G. Cawelti Book Award
Honorable Mention
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