LEADER 04269nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910781031503321 005 20230207231223.0 010 $a1-282-53843-8 010 $a9786612538438 010 $a0-226-31100-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226311005 035 $a(CKB)2550000000012362 035 $a(EBL)515744 035 $a(OCoLC)615626818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000427914 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11279071 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000427914 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413743 035 $a(PQKB)10485858 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117460 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515744 035 $a(DE-B1597)523724 035 $a(OCoLC)746883544 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226311005 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515744 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381171 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253843 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038261 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038261 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000012362 100 $a20020906d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeems like murder here$b[electronic resource] $eSouthern violence and the blues tradition /$fAdam Gussow 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-31098-1 311 $a0-226-31097-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aWinner 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zSouthern States$xIntellectual life 606 $aAfrican Americans$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions 606 $aBlues (Music)$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aBlues (Music) in literature 606 $aViolence in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aViolence$zSouthern States$xHistory 607 $aSouthern States$xIntellectual life 607 $aSouthern States$xRace relations 610 $ablues, music, race, history, politics, racism, zora neale hurston, langston hughes, bb king, david honeyboy edwards, wc handy, jim crow south, african american, violence, hate crimes, lynchings, spectacle, literature, poetry, songs, entrepreneurship, abjection, redress, resistance, activism, voice, nonfiction, mamie smith, kkk, civil rights. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aBlues (Music)$xHistory. 615 0$aBlues (Music) in literature. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aViolence$xHistory. 676 $a781.643/0975 700 $aGussow$b Adam$01516566 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781031503321 996 $aSeems like murder here$93753121 997 $aUNINA