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Beyond the crossroads the devil and the blues tradition
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Title
Beyond the crossroads [electronic resource] : the devil and the blues tradition / Adam Gussow.
ISBN
146963368X
9781469633688
9781469633657 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469633664 (pbk : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm).
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2017
Series
New directions in southern studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Heaven and hell parties: Southern religion and the devil's music
Sold it to the devil: the great migration, lost generations, and the perils of the urban dance hall
I'm going to marry the devil's daughter: blues tricksters signifying on Jim Crow
The devil's gonna get you: blues romance and the paradoxes of black freedom
Selling it at the crossroads: the lives and legacies of Robert Johnson
Playing for the haints: Ike's protege and crossroads folklore
I got a big white fella from Memphis made a deal with me: black men, white boys, and the anxieties of blues postmodernity in Walter Hill's crossroads
Local and private legislation: branding the crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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