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  • The Omni-Americans

    Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy

    by Albert Murray ...
    Rediscover the “most important book on black-white relationships” in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Walker Percy)“The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people . . . Any fool can see that the white people are not really white, and that black people are not black. They are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Hero And the Blues

    by Albert Murray ...
    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. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance to their audiences; both place a high value on improvisation; and both ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Stomping the Blues

    by Albert Murray ...
    In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that “the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Murray Talks Music

    Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues

    by Albert Murray, Greg Thomas ...
    The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Trading Twelves

    The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray

    by Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, 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, and identity with deep clarity and passion.The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    by Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire, Lauren Walsh, John F Callahan, Carol Friedman, Albert Murray, Greg Thomas, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Caroline Gebhard, Don Noble, Maurice Pogue, Bert Hitchcock, Sidney Offit, Sanford Pinsker, Paul Devlin, Eugene Holley, Robin DuBlanc, Dr. Barbara A. Baker, PhD, Ms. Jay Lamar, Mr. Gail Buckley, Mr. Elizabeth Mayer Fiedorek ...
    The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert MurrayThis collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Mitchell & Ruff

    An American Profile in Jazz

    by William Zinsser, Albert Murray ...
    "Highly recommended"—Library Journal"In this account of the world adventures of two splendid jazz artists, Bill Zinsser has given us one of the most exciting books about America's original art form that I've ever read. It's a revelation."—Studs TerkelSince 1955, Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff have been playing, teaching, and sharing jazz around the U.S. and around the world. William Zinsser, one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rifftide

    The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones

    by Papa Jo Jones, Phil Schaap ...
    Finalist for Best Jazz Book of the Year Award from the Jazz Journalists AssociationThe things that I have, I’ll give to you. This is my legacy with you, Albert. This is my last hoo-rah. So begins the autobiography of Jonathan David Samuel Jones—or as the world better knows him, Papa Jo Jones. Playing with Count Basie and his orchestra when they exploded out of Kansas City in 1936 and took the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Spyglass Tree

    by Albert Murray ...
    By “our premier writer about jazz and the blues...and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition” (Washington Post Book World), The Spyglass Tree is a deeply affecting novel of elegant, lyrical reminiscence and profound sophistication about a young black man’s advent into the world of academia—an imaginary Alabama college—in the 1930s.Admist the excitement of the world of ideas and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • South to a Very Old Place

    by Albert Murray ...
    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 Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, informed by "the poet's language, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Good Morning Blues

    The Autobiography of Count Basie

    by Count Basie ...
    Count Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Remembered Gate

    Memoirs by Alabama Writers

    by Mary Ward Brown, Patricia Foster, Frye Gaillard, Robert Inman, C. Eric Lincoln, James Haskins, Wayne Greenhaw, Andrew Hudgins, Rodney Jones, Phyllis Alesia Perry, William Cobb, Sena Jeter Naslund, Charles Gaines, Albert Murray, Fannie Flagg, Mark Kennedy, Andrew Glaze, Helen Bell Norris, Ms. Nanci Kincaid ...
    Series series Deep South Books
    Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural ... Read more

    $17.99 USD