Albert Murray (1916–2013)
Autore di Stomping the Blues
Sull'Autore
Albert Murray was born in Nokomis, Alabama, in 1916. He was educated at Tuskegee Institute, where he later taught literature & directed the college theater. He is the author of many works of fiction & nonfiction, including "The Seven League Boots", "The Blue Devils of Nada" & "The Spyglass Tree". mostra altro He lives in New York City. (Publisher Provided) Albert Murray was born in 1916 and grew up in Magazine Point, Alabama. He received a bachelor's degree from the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1939. During World War II, he served in the Air Force and received a master's degree from New York University after returning to the U.S. He was a novelist and critic who believed that blues and jazz were not primitive sounds, but sophisticated art. He wrote a series of autobiographical novels, a nonfiction narrative entitled South to a Very Old Place, an acclaimed history of music entitled Stomping the Blues, and several books of criticism including The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. In 2000, the Modern Library released Trading Twelves, a collection of letters between Murray and fellow author Ralph Ellison. He died on August 18, 2013 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Albert Murray
The Omni-americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback) (1970) 151 copie
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues /… (2016) 108 copie
Opere correlate
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Murray, Albert Lee (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1916-05-12
- Data di morte
- 2013-08-18
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Nokomis, Alabama, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Tuskegee Institute (BS|1939)
New York University (MA|1948)
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
University of Paris - Attività lavorative
- public intellectual
essayist
literary critic
novelist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1997)
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Recensioni
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs di Albert Murray
LOA attempts to widen the range of literary accomplishments made by previously unknown authors such as Albert Murray. Here in this volume, Mr Murray's collected essays & memoirs try to counter the growing divide between "black v white" by posing questions as to why this is so when then asking the question "Can we not discover our common traits?" Sadly, a lesson forgotten in the days of propaganda that refuse to address the divisions currently at play. Mr. Murray has much to say if only to ponder the questions pose.… (altro)
Ottima analisi della forma musicale blues/jazz, che parte dalla distinzione tra i blue devil e il blues come musica e prosegue sgretolando una serie di luoghi comuni (sullo spirito della musica, sul ruolo della tecnica, sullo stile, sulla presunta ingenuità del folklore) che purtroppo animano la maggior parte delle riflessioni su queste musiche.
Collection of magazine essays written in the 60s and collected and published in book form in 1970. I liked Murray’s basic perspective that American blacks and whites have much more in common than not, and that it would be good for people to realize that, and build on it, But these essays were really responding to events and discussions in the sixties and I didn’t follow a lot of it or find it meaningful. I did like the appendix with a summary of his life, which was amazing, and I think he deserves a good biography.… (altro)
The voice carries this short story all the way through to its conclusion. It's one man's explanation of why his ancestors were brought to this country as slaves, and while some of it is making the best of a bad situation, some of it is the honest truth. But, alas, there are still so many who don't understand it.
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