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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Adam Gussow


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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.

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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.

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  • Title Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
  • Author Adam Gussow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A
  • Date 2002-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780226310985 / 0226310981
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.68 x 0.8 in (21.59 x 16.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - African American, Violence in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002014388
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.643

About the author

Adam Gussow is an assistant professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir and has been a professional blues harmonica player for many years, touring widely in the 1990s as part of the Harlem-based duo Satan and Adam.
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