Seems like murder here [[electronic resource] ] : Southern violence and the blues tradition / / Adam Gussow

• Autore: Gussow Adam
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.643/0975
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Intellectual life; Southern States Race relations
• Soggetto non controllato: blues, 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Seems like murder here
• ISBN: 1-282-53843-8; 9786612538438; 0-226-31100-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781031503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II