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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
LCCN 2002014388
ISBN0226310973 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226310981 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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