Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace

Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery

by Bryan Wagner

320 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780674054769
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W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary - in Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the tradition's ongoing engagement with the law.

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