Black culture and the police power after slavery /
Bryan Wagner.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
1 online resource (vii, 307 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles -- The strange career of bras-coupé -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctt1347tfh
Disturbing the peace.
9780674035089
African Americans-- History-- 1863-1877.
African Americans-- History-- 1877-1964.
African Americans-- Music-- History and criticism.
African Americans-- Social life and customs.
Ballads-- History and criticism.
Legends-- History and criticism.
Police power-- Southern States-- History.
Police-community relations-- Southern States-- History.
African Americans-- Music.
African Americans-- Social life and customs.
African Americans.
Ballads.
Legends.
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Police power.
Police-community relations.
Polizei
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.