03871nam 2200817 a 450 991045628130332120200520144314.01-282-53843-897866125384380-226-31100-710.7208/9780226311005(CKB)2550000000012362(EBL)515744(OCoLC)615626818(SSID)ssj0000427914(PQKBManifestationID)11279071(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427914(PQKBWorkID)10413743(PQKB)10485858(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117460(MiAaPQ)EBC515744(DE-B1597)523724(OCoLC)746883544(DE-B1597)9780226311005(Au-PeEL)EBL515744(CaPaEBR)ebr10381171(CaONFJC)MIL253843(EXLCZ)99255000000001236220020906d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSeems like murder here[electronic resource] southern violence and the blues tradition /Adam GussowChicago University of Chicago Press20021 online resource (356 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-31098-1 0-226-31097-3 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.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 Neale Hurston, Seems Like Murder Here will transform our understanding of the blues and its enduring power.African AmericansSouthern StatesIntellectual lifeAfrican AmericansSouthern StatesSocial conditionsBlues (Music)Southern StatesHistoryBlues (Music) in literatureViolence in literatureRace relations in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismViolenceSouthern StatesHistorySouthern StatesIntellectual lifeSouthern StatesRace relationsElectronic books.African AmericansIntellectual life.African AmericansSocial conditions.Blues (Music)History.Blues (Music) in literature.Violence in literature.Race relations in literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.ViolenceHistory.781.643/0975Gussow Adam886780MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456281303321Seems like murder here1980454UNINA