Collected Essays & Memoirs
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Author
Contributions
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., editor - Contributor
- Devlin, Paul, 1980- editor - Contributor
Publication
2016 - The Library of America, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
262,250 words, Guess
Page Count
1,049 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecollectedessaysm0000murr
- ISBN-10159853503X
- ISBN-139781598535037
- OCLC Control Number936192059
- Better World Books9781598535037
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26883850M
Classifications
- DDC814
- LCCPS3563.U764 A6 2016
- LCCPS3563.U764A6 2016
Alternate Titles
- Albert Murray, collected essays & memoirs
- Collected essays and memoirs
Description
In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the "blues-hero tradition" - a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity. Murray went on to refine these ideas in The Blue Devils of Nada and From the Briarpatch File, and all three landmark collections of essays are gathered here for the first time, together with Murray's memoir South to a Very Old Place, his brilliant lecture series The Hero and the Blues, his masterpiece of jazz criticism Stomping the Blues, and eight previously uncollected pieces.
Subjects
Series Statement
- The library of America -- 284
- Library of America -- 284.
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