Albert Murray Collected Novels And Poems
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Albert Murray Collected Novels Poems Loa 304
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Albert Murray Collected Novels Poems Loa 304 written by Albert Murray and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-13 with Fiction categories.
Complete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-novel Scooter sequence One of the leading cultural critics of his generation, Albert Murray was also the author of an extraordinary quartet of semi-autobiographical novels, vivid impressionistic portraits of black life in the Deep South in the 1920s and '30s and in prewar New York City. Train Whistle Guitar (1974) introduces Murray's recurring narrator and protagonist, Scooter, a "Southern jackrabbit raised in a briarpatch" too nimble ever to receive a scratch. Scooter's education in books, music, and the blue-steel bent-note blues-ballad realities of American life continues in The Spyglass Tree (1991), Murray's "Portrait of the Artist as a Tuskegee Undergraduate." The Seven League Boots (1996) follows Scooter as he becomes a bass player in a touring band not unlike Duke Ellington's, and The Magic Keys (2005), in which Scooter at last finds his true vocation as a writer in Greenwich Village, is an elegaic reverie on an artist's life. Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin round out the volume with a selection of Murray's remarkable poems, including 11 unpublished pieces from his notebooks, and two rare examples of his work as a short story writer. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Train Whistle Guitar
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1998
Train Whistle Guitar written by Albert Murray and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with African American musicians categories.
His schoolteacher, the barber, older girls, and a train-hopping musician teach Scooter just about all he needs to know in Gasoline Point, Alabama, during the 1920s.
Conjugations And Reiterations
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 2001
Conjugations And Reiterations written by Albert Murray and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with African Americans categories.
In an essay on Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, the critic Darryl Pinckney remarks in the New York Review of Books: "Their style is defined by humor and their humor by amplified uproar, determined vitality, robust ironies. Yet these letters also reveal a quiet reverence for the artistry to be found in black culture, the belief that true art teaches control, not abandon, a faith in music as a 'depository' of living American traditions, and their search for a literary equivalent."As with the letters, the poems of "Conjugations and Reiterations." This five-part volume is comprised of "Aubades (epic exits and other twelve bar riffs), " best described as light, blues entertainments; "Landscape with Figures, " an extended meditation on the vicissitudes of American life; "Fable in the Fabric, " poems concerned with the improvisatory and call-and-response nature of American arts: "Profiles, " including a valedictory to William Faulkner that was recently published in The New Republic; and "Gospel Reverberations, " verse evocations of the profundities of the Gospel and of gospel music.
The Omni Americans
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2020-02-04
The Omni Americans written by Albert Murray and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Social Science categories.
Rediscover the “most important book on black-white relationships” in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Walker Percy) “The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people . . . Any fool can see that the white people are not really white, and that black people are not black. They are all interrelated one way or another.” These words, written by Albert Murray at the height of the Black Power movement, cut against the grain of their moment, and announced the arrival of a major new force in American letters. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Murray 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. Reviewing The Omni-Americans in 1970, Walker Percy called it “the most important book on black-white relationships . . . indeed on American culture . . . published in this generation.” As Henry Louis Gates, Jr. makes clear in his introduction, Murray’s singular poetic voice, impassioned argumentation, and pluralistic vision have only become more urgently needed today.
Collected Poems
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Author : Les Murray
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Collected Poems written by Les Murray and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Poetry categories.
‘One of the great books of the modern world.’ – Clive James Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree (1965) to Waiting for the Past (2015) and On Bunyah (2016). In tracing Murray's artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery.
South To A Very Old Place
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-09-19
South To A Very Old Place written by Albert Murray and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, informed by "the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling" (The New Yorker). "His perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor and its tenacious hold on the intellect...[It] destroys some fashionable socio-political interpretations of growing up black."--Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review
Antagonistic Cooperation
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Author : Robert G. O'Meally
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Antagonistic Cooperation written by Robert G. O'Meally and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Finalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as “antagonistic cooperation.” Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O’Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide a new history of Black creativity and aesthetics. From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, O’Meally explores how the worlds of African American jazz, art, and literature have informed one another. He argues that these artists drew on the improvisatory nature of jazz and the techniques of collage not as a way to depict a fractured or broken sense of Blackness but rather to see the Black self as beautifully layered and complex. They developed a shared set of methods and motives driven by the belief that art must involve a sense of community. O’Meally’s readings of these artists and their work emphasize how they have not only contributed to understanding of Black history and culture but also provided hope for fulfilling the broken promises of American democracy.
Stomping The Blues
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-10-17
Stomping The Blues written by Albert Murray and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Music categories.
In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that “the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance.” In Stomping the Blues Murray explores its history, influences, development, and meaning as only he can. More than two hundred vintage photographs capture the ambiance Murray evokes in lyrical prose. Only the sounds are missing from this lyrical, sensual tribute to the blues.
Albert Murray Collected Essays Memoirs Loa 284
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-10-18
Albert Murray Collected Essays Memoirs Loa 284 written by Albert Murray and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with Literary Collections categories.
Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin present a definitive edition of Albert Murray's collected nonfiction, including his 1971 memoir South to a Very Old Place, inspiration for Imani Perry's South to America. 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--inspiration for Imani Perry's South to America, his brilliant lecture series The Hero and the Blues, his masterpiece of jazz criticism Stomping the Blues, and eight previously uncollected pieces. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Britannica Book Of The Year 2014
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Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
language : en
Publisher: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Britannica Book Of The Year 2014 written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and has been published by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Britannica Book of the Year 2014 provides a valuable viewpoint of the people and events that shaped the year and serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world. It is an accurate and comprehensive reference that you will reach for again and again.