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Blues recording artist and critic Adam Gussow begins his story in the 1890s, when the spectacle lynching of blacks became an insidious part of Southern life. Gussow identifies veiled references to real life incidents of these lynchings within the words of blues songs and literature.Gussow, Adam is the author of 'Seems Like Murder Here Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition', published 2002 under ISBN 9780226310985 and ISBN 0226310981.
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