Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America

Frankie And Johnny Take Center Stage : African American Folk Culture In 1930s America -- Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony : Huddie Ledbetter And The Changing Contours Of American Folk Music -- Pistol Packin' Mama : Imperiled Masculinity In Thomas Hart Benton's A Social History Of The State Of Missouri -- Whiteface Marionettes : John Huston's Comic Melodrama -- The Finest Woman Ever To Walk The Streets : Mae West's Outlaw Exploits In She Done Him Wrong -- The Lynching Of Johnny : Sterling Brown's Social Realist Critique -- Epilogue. African American Women's Voices And The Tightrope Of Respectability. Stacy I. Morgan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 219-253) And Index.