Disturbing the Peace - Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery

Zusammenfassung W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary—Wagner gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the black vernacular tradition’s ongoing engagement with the law.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Wagner, Wagner Bryan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780674035089
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03508-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ethnic Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Geography, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas