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Stagolee shot Billy /
"This story was never meant to by sandwiched between the covers of a book, as neat lines of prose. In 1895 a man called "Stag" Lee Shelton shot a man called Billy Lyons in a St. Louis bar. A black-on-black crime that scarcely made headlines. But this story, turned into a song, is one...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stagolee shot Billy
- Lee Shelton : the man behind the myth
- That bad pimp of old St. Louis : the oral poetry of the late 1890s
- "Poor Billy Lyons"
- Narrative events and narrated events
- Stagolee and politics
- Under the lid : the underside of the political struggle
- The Black social clubs
- Hats and nicknames : symbolic values
- Ragtime and Stagolee
- The blues and Stagolee
- Jim Crow and oral narrative
- Riverboat rouster and mean mate
- Work camps, hoboes, and shack bully hollers
- William Marion Reedy's white outlaw
- Cowboy Stagolee and hillbilly blues
- Blueswomen : Stagolee did them wrong
- Bluesmen and Black bad man
- On the trail of sinful Stagolee
- Stagolee in a world full of trouble
- From rhythm and blues to rock and roll : "I heard my bulldog bark"
- The toast : bad Black hero of the Black revolution
- Folklore/poplore : Bob Dylan's Stagolee
- The "bad nigger" trope in American literature
- James Baldwin's "Staggerlee wonders"
- Stagolee as cultural and political hero
- Stagolee and modernism.