| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-285) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Stagolee (Legendary character)
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Stagolee (Legendary character) |
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Ballads, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Ballads, English. |
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United States. |
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Literature and folklore -- United States.
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Literature and folklore. |
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African American criminals -- Folklore.
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African American criminals. |
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African American men in literature.
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African American men in literature. |
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African American men -- Folklore.
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African American men. |
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Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore.
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African Americans -- Folklore. |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Cecil, 1943- Stagolee shot Billy. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 0674010566 9780674010567 (DLC) 2002192241 (OCoLC)51171738 |
| ISBN |
9780674028906 (electronic book) |
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0674028902 (electronic book) |
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0674010566 (alkaline paper) |
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