Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T by Murray, Albert

Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T

Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin present a definitive edition of Albert Murray's collected nonfiction,...
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Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T by Murray, Albert

Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T

$118.93

Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T

$118.93
Author: Albert Murray
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Albert Murray
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 10/18/2016
Pages: 1072
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781598535037

About the Author
Henry Louis Gates Jr., co-editor, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-one books and created fifteen documentary films. He is the editor of two other volumes in the Library of America series, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies and, with William L. Andrews, Slave Narratives.

Paul Devlin, co-editor, teaches English at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and has published essays and criticism in many periodicals. He is the editor of Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues (2016) and Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray (2011), a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association's book award.

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