Disturbing the peace : Black culture and the police power after slavery / / Bryan Wagner
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| Autore: |
Wagner Bryan
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| Titolo: |
Disturbing the peace : Black culture and the police power after slavery / / Bryan Wagner
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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-coupe -- 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: | 9780674054769 |
| 0674054768 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966509603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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