The hero and the blues.

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Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues is at once an homage and a manifesto for a new black aesthetic.

Erudite, eloquent, appreciative, and iconoclastic, it is further evidence of Murray's ability to turn the essay into a kind of poetry -- as enchanting as it is by: In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature.

Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues/5. Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues is at once an homage and a manifesto for a new black aesthetic.

Erudite, eloquent, appreciative, and iconoclastic, it is further evidence of Murray's ability to turn the essay into a kind of poetry -- as enchanting as it is instructive/5(6). 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 : About The Hero And the Blues.

In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray’s subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. 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 C. Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Murray, Albert. Hero and the blues.

[Columbia] University of Missouri Press []. Genre/Form: Songs Music Criticism, interpretation, etc: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Murray, Albert. Hero and the blues. New York: Vintage Books, Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues is at once an homage and a manifesto for a new black aesthetic.

Erudite, eloquent, appreciative, and iconoclastic, it is further evidence of Murray's ability to turn the essay into a kind of poetry -- as enchanting as it is instructive. 4 book recommendations to relax and escape for a little.

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The Hero And the Blues by Albert Murray The Hero And the Blues | In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature.

Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. 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/5(52).

Buy the Paperback Book The Hero And The Blues by Albert Murray atCanada's largest bookstore. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the.

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In The Hero and the Blues, Murray writes about the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s four-volume novel Joseph and His Brothers. Joseph, he explains, Joseph, he explains. Oliver is one of the most respected and prolific writers on blues history and this is a very readable overview of the origins and evolution of blues in the 20th century.

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“Encyclopedic packed with enough info to make a blues nerd giddy with joy [a] rich, resonant, detailed account this book draws you in the way a novel does, one by Dostoyevsky, say, in which the hero is part genius, part stumblebum, a flawed artist making his way half-aware through a world of joys and pitfalls—someone very much like most of us, in other words, if a lot more talented and a little more.

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A book review by James Clarke. “Chicago musicians played the blues and all the other cats were imitators.” Michael Bloomfield I remember the first time I heard the song “Born in Chicago”.

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