Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition - Gussow, Adam.; ebrary, Inc. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002)
"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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: 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; Electronic books