TY - BOOK AU - Morgan,Stacy I. TI - Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America SN - 9781477312094 AV - GR111 U1 - 398.2089/96073 PY - 2017/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Frankie and Johnny" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4826334 ER -