The Blue Devils Of Nada
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The Blue Devils Of Nada
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-09-19
The Blue Devils Of Nada 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 Fiction categories.
Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in no uncertain terms what it means to be American.
Stomping The Blues
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1982
Stomping The Blues 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 1982 with Music categories.
The legendary study of the blues by one of America's premier writers and critics.
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.
Jazz Country
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Author : Horace A. Porter
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2005-05
Jazz Country written by Horace A. Porter and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Horace Porter is the chair of African American World Studies and professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Stealing Fire: The Art and Protest of James Baldwin and one of the editors of Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. The first book to reassess Ralph Ellison after his death and the posthumous publication ofJuneteenth, his second novel, Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America explores Ellison's writings and views on American culture through the lens of jazz music. Horace Porter's groundbreaking study addresses Ellison's jazz background, including his essays and comments about jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. Porter further examines the influences of Ellington and Armstrong as sources of the writer's personal and artistic inspiration and highlights the significance of Ellison's camaraderie with two African American friends and fellow jazz fans—the writer Albert Murray and the painter Romare Bearden. Most notably, Jazz Country demonstrates how Ellison appropriated jazz techniques in his two novels, Invisible Man and Juneteenth. Using jazz as the key metaphor, Porter refocuses old interpretations of Ellison by placing jazz in the foreground and by emphasizing, especially as revealed in his essays, the power of Ellison's thought and cultural perception. The self-proclaimed “custodian of American culture,” Ellison offers a vision of “jazz-shaped” America—a world of improvisation, individualism, and infinite possibility.
Dive Deeper
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Author : George Cotkin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Dive Deeper written by George Cotkin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with Fiction categories.
An easy-to-navigate guide to Herman Melville's epic American novel, Dive Deeper consists of 135 brief chapters, along with Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue, each keyed to a phrase, issue, image, sensibility or notion in corresponding chapters of the original.
The Oxford Handbook Of Critical Improvisation Studies
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Author : George E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-22
The Oxford Handbook Of Critical Improvisation Studies written by George E. Lewis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Music categories.
Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.
Uptown Conversation
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Author : Robert G. O'Meally
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-30
Uptown Conversation 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 2004-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define—it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, these original essays offer new insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States and worldwide. Articles contemplating the music's experimental wing—such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns's documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott's autobiography Songs of the Unsung—share the stage with revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.
Afro Modernist Aesthetics The Poetry Of Sterling A Brown
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Author : Mark A. Sanders
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1999
Afro Modernist Aesthetics The Poetry Of Sterling A Brown written by Mark A. Sanders and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sterling A. Brown’s poetry and aesthetics are central to a proper understanding of African American art and politics of the early twentieth century. This study redefines the relationship between modernism and the New Negro era in light of Brown’s uniquely hybrid poetry and vision of a heterodox, pluralist modernism. Brown, also a folklorist and critic, saw the Harlem Renaissance and modernism as interactive rather than mutually exclusive and perceived the New Negro era as the dawning of African American modernity. Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the ways in which Brown reconfigured black being and created alternative conceptual space for African Americans amid the prevailing racial discourses of American culture. Brown’s poetics call for revised conceptions of the Harlem Renaissance, black identity, artistic expression, and modernity that recognize the range, depth, and complexity of African American life.
Conversations With Albert Murray
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Author : Albert Murray
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1997
Conversations With Albert Murray written by Albert Murray and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In these conversations Murray discusses those who influenced him - Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington - and tells how they helped him develop a philosophy of art based on the blues as well as a new archetype of the American hero, the blues hero.
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation
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Author : Barbara A. Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation written by Barbara A. Baker and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert Murray. The collection consists of essays and interviews written by prominent scholars of African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray that illustrate Murray's place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural pioneer. Book jacket.