Title Frankie and Johnny : race, gender, and the work of African American folklore in 1930s America / Stacy I. Morgan.

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Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Frankie and Johnny take center stage : African American folk culture in 1930s America -- Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony : Huddie Ledbetter and the changing contours of American folk music -- Pistol Packin' Mama: imperiled masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's a social history of the state of Missouri -- Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's comic melodrama -- The finest woman ever to walk the streets : Mae West's outlaw exploits in She Done Him Wrong -- The lynching of Johnny : Sterling Brown's social realist critique -- Epilogue. African American women's voices and the tightrope of respectability.
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Subject	African Americans -- Folklore.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Sex role -- United States.
	Sex role.
	United States.
	Popular music -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
	Popular music.
	Popular music -- United States -- African influences.
	Folk songs, English -- United States.
	Music -- Social aspects.
	Folk songs, English.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
	African Americans.
	Popular music -- African influences.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	Folklore.
Subject	Gender roles.
Other Form:	Print version: Morgan, Stacy I., 1970- Frankie and Johnny. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 9781477312070 (DLC) 2016035709 (OCoLC)956633371
ISBN	9781477312094 (electronic book)
	1477312099 (electronic book)
	9781477312100 (non-library e-book)
	1477312102 (non-library e-book)
	9781477312070
	1477312072
	9781477312087
	1477312080
Sudoc No.	Z UA380.8 M823fr

Title Frankie and Johnny : race, gender, and the work of African American folklore in 1930s America / Stacy I. Morgan.

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