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Disturbing the Peace : Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery / Bryan Wagner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674035089
  • 9780674054769
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073 22
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM IDA B. WELLS TO ROBERT CHARLES -- 2. THE STRANGE CAREER OF BRAS- COUPÉ -- 3. UNCLE REMUS AND THE ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT -- 4. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM GEORGE W. JOHNSON TO OZELLA JONES -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: 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 - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM IDA B. WELLS TO ROBERT CHARLES -- 2. THE STRANGE CAREER OF BRAS- COUPÉ -- 3. UNCLE REMUS AND THE ATLANTA POLICE DEPARTMENT -- 4. THE BLACK TRADITION FROM GEORGE W. JOHNSON TO OZELLA JONES -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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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 - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)