Disturbing the peace [[electronic resource] ] : Black culture and the police power after slavery / / Bryan Wagner

• Autore: Wagner Bryan
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896/073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Social life and customs; African Americans - Music - History and criticism; Legends - History and criticism; Ballads - History and criticism; Police power - Southern States - History; Police-community relations - Southern States - History; African Americans - History - 1863-1877; African Americans - History - 1877-1964
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles -- The strange career of bras-coupé -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones.
• Sommario/riassunto: W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.
• Titolo autorizzato: Disturbing the peace
• ISBN: 0-674-05476-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785013103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II