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UNINA9910824275303321 |
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Autore |
Gussow Adam |
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Titolo |
Seems like murder here : Southern violence and the blues tradition / / Adam Gussow |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-53843-8 |
9786612538438 |
0-226-31100-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Southern States - Intellectual life |
African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions |
Blues (Music) - Southern States - History |
Blues (Music) in literature |
Violence in literature |
Race relations in literature |
American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
Violence - Southern States - History |
Southern States Intellectual life |
Southern States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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