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Seems Like Murder Here - Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Seems Like Murder Here - Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Taking its title from a lyric by Mississippi bluesman Charley
Patton, "Seems Liks Murder Here" offers a revealing new account of
the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and
"hard times", blues songs and literature emerge in this provocative
work as vital responses to the violent realities and traumatic
legacies of African American life in the Jim Crow South. Blues
recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the
1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious
part of Southern life. Although lynchings are seldom referred to
directly in blues songs, veiled references to them abound, and
Gussow identifies these scattered mentions, tying them to real-life
incidents and historical events in the autobiographies of bluesmen
and -women. Southern violence, he shows also enters the blues
tradition through folklore about "badmen": African Americans who
take the lives of white aggressors in self-defence. Blues songs and
literature, meanwhile, teem with searing depictions of bloodshed,
such as the cutting and shooting that blacks inflicted on one
another in juke joints. For Gussow, such expressive acts of
violence are the quintessential blues gesture - burning examples of
racial and romantic anguish. As Langston Hughes once wrote, "My
love might turn into a knife/instead of to a song". With
interpretations of classic songs and writings, from the
autobiographies of W.C. Handy, David Honeyboy Edwards, and B.B.
King to the poetry of Hughes and the novels of Zora Neale Hurston,
"Seems Like Murder Here" should reshape our understanding of the
blues and its enduring power.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2002 |
First published: |
December 2002 |
Authors: |
Adam Gussow
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Dimensions: |
235 x 161 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
360 |
Edition: |
2nd ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-31097-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social issues >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-31097-3 |
Barcode: |
9780226310978 |
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