Fictional blues : narrative self-invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White /
The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuosity, and the violent stereotypes evoked by legendary blues "bad men" like Stagger Lee undergird the persistent racial myths surrounding "...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | African American intellectual history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The narrative blues tradition : Tall tales, myths, and Black American folklore
- Shug, Big Mama, and Amy : Autobiographical fictions and addictions
- "I was astounded at what I heard" : Robert Johnson's autobiographical and biographical afterlives
- From John Anthony Gillis to Jack White : A study in blues self-invention
- The blues apprenticeship : Racialized conventions of the acolyte
- Afterword.