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Frankie and Johnny : Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477312094
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frankie and JohnnyDDC classification:
  • 398.2089/96073
LOC classification:
  • GR111
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Frankie and Johnny Take Center Stage: African American Folk Culture in 1930s America -- 2. Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony: Huddie Ledbetter and the Changing Contours of American Folk Music -- 3. Pistol Packin' Mama: Imperiled Masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's A Social History of the State of Missouri -- 4. Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's Comic Melodrama -- 5. The Finest Woman Ever to Walk the Streets: Mae West's Outlaw Exploits in She Done Him Wrong -- 6. The Lynching of Johnny: Sterling Brown's Social Realist Critique -- Epilogue. African American Women's Voices and the Tightrope of Respectability -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Frankie and Johnny Take Center Stage: African American Folk Culture in 1930s America -- 2. Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony: Huddie Ledbetter and the Changing Contours of American Folk Music -- 3. Pistol Packin' Mama: Imperiled Masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's A Social History of the State of Missouri -- 4. Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's Comic Melodrama -- 5. The Finest Woman Ever to Walk the Streets: Mae West's Outlaw Exploits in She Done Him Wrong -- 6. The Lynching of Johnny: Sterling Brown's Social Realist Critique -- Epilogue. African American Women's Voices and the Tightrope of Respectability -- Notes -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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