- Introduction: The Tradition of Stagolee
- I. Stagolee and St. Louis
- 1. Stagolee Shot Billy
- 2. Lee Shelton: The Man behind the Myth
- 3. That Bad Pimp of Old St. Louis: The Oral Poetry of the Late 1890s
- 4. “Poor Billy Lyons”
- 5. Narrative Events and Narrated Events
- 6. Stagolee and Politics
- 7. Under the Lid: The Underside of the Political Struggle
- 8. The Black Social Clubs
- 9. Hats and Nicknames: Symbolic Values
- 10. Ragtime and Stagolee
- 11. The Blues and Stagolee
- II. The Thousand Faces of Stagolee
- 12. Jim Crow and Oral Narrative
- 13. Riverboat Rouster and Mean Mate
- 14. Work Camps, Hoboes, and Shack Bully Hollers
- 15. William Marion Reedy’s White Outlaw
- 16. Cowboy Stagolee and Hillbilly Blues
- 17. Blueswomen: Stagolee Did Them Wrong
- 18. Bluesmen and Black Bad Man
- 19. On the Trail of Sinful Stagolee
- 20. Stagolee in a World Full of Trouble
- 21. From Rhythm and Blues to Rock and Roll: “I Heard My Bulldog Bark”
- 22. The Toast: Bad Black Hero of the Black Revolution
- 23. Folklore/Poplore: Bob Dylan’s Stagolee
- III. Mammy-Made: Stagolee and American Identity
- 24. The “Bad Nigger” Trope in American Literature
- 25. James Baldwin’s “Staggerlee Wonders”
- 26. Stagolee as Cultural and Political Hero
- 27. Stagolee and Modernism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Stagolee Shot Billy
Product Details
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$31.00 • £26.95 • €28.95
ISBN 9780674016262
Publication Date: 09/30/2004
Awards & Accolades
- An Esquire Best Book of 2003
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