Stagolee Shot Billy

Contents

• 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