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In these conversations Murray discusses those who influenced him - Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington - and tells how ...
In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that โthe blues as such are syn...
Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Rediscover the โmost important book on black-white relationshipsโ in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates...
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916โ2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and ...
New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture
The Omni-Americans is a classic collection of wickedly incisive essays, commentaries, and reviews on politics, literature, and music. Provocative and ...
The Autobiography of Count Basie
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The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a ...
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray
This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race,...
The Magic Keys winningly evokes the coming to maturity of one of the great characters in contemporary American literature: Scooter, the central protag...
The break-out novel by an unrecognized master--"a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition" (Washington Post Book World). Told from the ...
The Autobiography of Count Basie as Told to Albert Murray
e. Autobiographie
First published in 1975, this is a coming of age novel. Scooter, growing up in Alabama in the 1920's, learns everything he needs to know from the clas...
Photomontage Projections, 1964
In 1977, Bearden created a series of 20 collages based on Homer's Odyssey. "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey" is the first full-scale exhibition since ...
Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems
Complete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-nove...
The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / other writings
Editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin present a definitive edition of Albert Murray's collected nonfiction, including his 1971 memoir South to...
The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones
The life and times of Papa Jo Jones, gifted raconteur and one of the greatest drummers in the history of jazz...
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A Symposium Held at University of Toronto, 19 and 20 February 1970: Sponsors University of Toronto, Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust: Organized by Department of Parasitology, School of Hygiene