The Blue Devils of Nada
A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
Published on 19. September 2012
252 pages
978-0-307-82862-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Person
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.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part One - The Intent of the Artist
- Regional Particulars and Universal Implications
- Part Two - Two All-American Artists First Person Singular
- Duke Ellington Vamping Till Ready
- Comping for Count Basie
- Part Three - The Armstrong Continuum
- The Twentieth-Century American Herald
- Part Four - 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
- Part Five - The Visual Equivalent to Blues Composition
- Bearden Plays Bearden
- Part Six - The Storyteller as Blues Singer
- Ernest Hemingway Swinging the Blues and Taking Nothing
- Epilogue
