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000800270 1001_ $$aMurray, Albert,$$eauthor.
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000800270 24510 $$aCollected essays & memoirs /$$cAlbert Murray ; Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors.
000800270 2463_ $$aAlbert Murray, collected essays & memoirs
000800270 2463_ $$aCollected essays and memoirs
000800270 2463_ $$aAlbert Murray, collected essays and memoirs
000800270 264_1 $$aNew York, N.Y. :$$bThe Library of America,$$c[2016]
000800270 300__ $$axi, 1049 pages ;$$c21 cm.
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000800270 4901_ $$aThe Library of America ;$$v284
000800270 500__ $$aSelected nonfiction writings originally published 1964-2004.
000800270 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 956-1020) and index.
000800270 50500 $$tThe omni-Americans : some alternatives to the folklore of white supremacy. The Omni-Americans (The Omni-Americans (A natural history : E pluribus unum ; White norms for black deviation ; Paleface fables, brownskin people ; The blues idiom and the mainstream)) ; The illusive black image (Introduction ; Image and unlikeness in Harlem ; Oneupmanship in colorful America ; The illusive black middle class ; Two case histories (Claude Brown's soul for white folks ; Gordon Parks out of focus) ; Who that say, what dat, every time us do that? ; A clutch of social science fiction fiction (Star-crossed melodrama ; Warren Miller and his black face vaudeville ; William Styron and his troublesome property) ; James Baldwin, protest fiction, and the blues tradition) ; Getting it together (Identity, diversity, and the mainstream (A short history of black self-consciousness ; The role of the pre-American past)) ; Black pride in Mobile, Alabama ; Black studies and the aims of education) ; Epilogue : Situation normal : all fouled up --$$tSouth to a very old place. New York ; New Haven ; Greensboro ; Atlanta ; Tuskegee ; Mobile ; New Orleans, Greenville, Memphis --$$tThe hero and the blues. The social function of the story teller ; The dynamics of heroic action ; The blues and the fable in the flesh --$$tStomping the blues. The blues as such ; The blues face to face ; The blue devils and the holy ghost ; The blues as music ; Blues music as such ; Singing the blues ; Playing the blues ; Swinging the blues ; Kansas city four/four and the velocity of celebration ; The blues as dance music ; Folk art and fine art ; The blues as statement --$$tThe blue devils of Nada : a contemporary American approach to aesthetic statement. The intent of the artist (Regional particulars and universal implications) ; Two all-American artists first-person singular (Duke Ellington vamping till ready ; Comping for Count Basie) ; The Armstrong continuum (The twentieth-century American herald) ; The Ellington synthesis (The vernacular imperative ; Storiella Americana as she is swyung, or, The blues as representative anecdote ; Armstrong and Ellington stomping the blues in Paris) ; The visual equivalent to blues composition (Bearden plays Bearden) ; The storyteller as blues singer (Ernest Hemingway swinging the blues and taking nothing) --$$tFrom the briarpatch file : on context, procedure, and American identity. Antagonistic cooperation in Alabama ; Context and definition ; Academic lead sheet ; Art as such ; Riffing at Mrs. Jack's Place ; Made in America : the achievement of Duke Ellington ; Me and old Duke ; Me and old Uncle Billy and the American mythosphere ; The HNIC who he ; Soul brothers abroad ; Freedom bound U.S.A. ; The good old boys down yonder ; The "reconstruction" of Robert Penn Warren ; Louis Armstrong in his own words ; Manhattan in the twenties ; The blue steel, rawhide, patent leather implications of fairy tales ; An all-purpose, all-American literary intellectual --$$gOther writings.$$t"The problem" is not just black and white ;$$tU.S. Negroes and U.S. Jews : no cause for alarm ;$$t"Soul" : thirty-two meanings not in your dictionary ;$$t"Stone" : definition and usage ;$$tTwo nations? Only two? ;$$tBearden in theory and ritual ;$$tThree omni-American artists ;$$tJazz : notes toward a definition --$$gChronology.
000800270 520__ $$aIn his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the "blues-hero tradition" - a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity. Murray went on to refine these ideas in The Blue Devils of Nada and From the Briarpatch File, and all three landmark collections of essays are gathered here for the first time, together with Murray's memoir South to a Very Old Place, his brilliant lecture series The Hero and the Blues, his masterpiece of jazz criticism Stomping the Blues, and eight previously uncollected pieces.
000800270 60010 $$aMurray, Albert.
000800270 650_0 $$aAfrican American authors$$vBiography.
000800270 650_0 $$aAmerican essays$$y20th century.
000800270 650_0 $$aLiterature$$xHistory and criticism.
000800270 650_0 $$aBlues (Music)$$xHistory and criticism.
000800270 650_0 $$aJazz$$xHistory and criticism.
000800270 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRace relations.
000800270 655_7 $$aEssays.$$2lcgft
000800270 655_7 $$aAutobiographies.$$2lcgft
000800270 655_7 $$aLectures.$$2lcgft
000800270 7001_ $$aGates, Henry Louis,$$cJr.,$$eeditor.
000800270 7001_ $$aDevlin, Paul,$$d1980-$$eeditor.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tOmni-Americans.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tSouth to a very old place.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tHero and the blues.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tStomping the blues.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tBlue devils of Nada.
000800270 70012 $$aMurray, Albert.$$tFrom the briarpatch file.
000800270 830_0 $$aLibrary of America ;$$v284.
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