Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition Book

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. Gussow...Read More

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  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0226310981
  • 9780226310985
  • A Gussow
  • 13 December 2002
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
  • 2nd
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