Name: I, Stagolee
SKU: 24810601
Price: 15.14 EUR
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Author: Brown, Cecil
ISBN: 9781556435744

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Author

Cecil Brown

Publisher

North Atlantic Books

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.5x14x2.1 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1556435746

ISBN13

9781556435744

Synopsis "I, Stagolee"

It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the "Stags," Stagolee makes alliances with the Democratic Party and votes for a Democratic Mayor. Later, the Stag Party, along with the Democratic Party, elects St. Louis's first black policeman. It is this policeman who is sent to arrest Stagolee for the murder of Billy Lyons. Now, nearly 50 years after singer Lloyd Price introduced mainstream audiences to the "Stagger Lee" story, Cecil Brown portrays the events that gave rise to this mainstay of African-American popular culture. This follows the successful Stagolee Shot Billy, Brown's nonfiction account of the same story.

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