Title Seems like murder here : southern violence and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 341 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.
Contents	"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.
Summary	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 Neal.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	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.
	Southern States -- Intellectual life.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
	MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
	MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Soul & R 'n B.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00799627
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	American literature -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807114
	Blues (Music) (OCoLC)fst00835056
	Blues (Music) in literature. (OCoLC)fst00835070
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Race relations in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086563
	Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
	Violence in literature. (OCoLC)fst01167282
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
	Blues.
	Rassenkonflikt.
	Blues.
	Gewalttätigkeit.
	United States -- Südstaaten.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Gussow, Adam. Seems like murder here. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226310978 (DLC) 2002014388 (OCoLC)50598253
ISBN	9780226311005 (electronic bk.)
	0226311007 (electronic bk.)

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