Stagolee Shot Billy Book

	Introduction: The Tradition of Stagolee	1
I.	Stagolee and St. Louis
1.	Stagolee Shot Billy	21
2.	Lee Shelton: The Man behind the Myth	37
3.	That Bad Pimp of Old St. Louis: The Oral Poetry of the Late 1890s	48
4.	"Poor Billy Lyons"	59
5.	Narrative Events and Narrated Events	70
6.	Stagolee and Politics	79
7.	Under the Lid: The Underside of the Political Struggle	84
8.	The Black Social Clubs	93
9.	Hats and Nicknames: Symbolic Values	98
10.	Ragtime and Stagolee	105
11.	The Blues and Stagolee	110
II.	The Thousand Faces of Stagolee
12.	Jim Crow and Oral Narrative	119
13.	Riverboat Rouster and Mean Mate	122
14.	Work Camps, Hoboes, and Shack Bully Hollers	127
15.	William Marion Reedy's White Outlaw	129
16.	Cowboy Stagolee and Hillbilly Blues	134
17.	Blueswomen: Stagolee Did Them Wrong	144
18.	Bluesmen and Black Bad Man	148
19.	On the Trail of Sinful Stagolee	157
20.	Stagolee in a World Full of Trouble	163
21.	From Rhythm and Blues to Rock and Roll: "I Heard My Bulldog Bark"	172
22.	The Toast: Bad Black Hero of the Black Revolution	177
23.	Folklore/Poplore: Bob Dylan's Stagolee	184
III.	Mammy-Made: Stagolee and American Identity
24.	The "Bad Nigger" Trope in American Literature	193
25.	James Baldwin's "Staggerlee Wonders"	206
26.	Stagolee as Cultural and Political Hero	212
27.	Stagolee and Modernism	217
	Notes	231
	Bibliography	261
	Index	287