Collected essays & memoirs
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New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2016].
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159853503X, 9781598535037
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xi, 1049 pages ; 21 cm.
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Headquarters Library - Adult Biography | BIO MURRAY,A 2016 | In |
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Published
New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2016].
Language
English
ISBN
159853503X, 9781598535037
UPC
99970908681
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Selected nonfiction writings originally published 1964-2004.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 956-1020) and index.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Murray, A., Gates, H. L., & Devlin, P. (2016). Collected essays & memoirs . The Library of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Murray, Albert, Henry Louis Gates and Paul Devlin. 2016. Collected Essays & Memoirs. The Library of America.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Murray, Albert, Henry Louis Gates and Paul Devlin. Collected Essays & Memoirs The Library of America, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Murray, Albert,, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Paul Devlin. Collected Essays & Memoirs The Library of America, 2016.
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