The Blue Devils of Nada

Informationen zum Autor Albert Murray is the author of  The Omni-Americans, Stomping the Blues, The Hero and the Blues, South to a Very Old Place, Conjugations and Reiterations , and  From the Briarpatch File . He is the coauthor of  Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie  and the coeditor of  Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray . He lives in New York City. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Albert Murray
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.1997
• EAN: 9780679758594
• ISBN: 978-0-679-75859-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies