Albert Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jazz
To Hear Another Language
On December 15, 1978, four longtime friends, Romare Bearden, Alvin Ailey, Albert Murray, and James Baldwin, gathered at the home of the art publisher, Hugh McKay. From the filmmaker's point-of-view, the location was ideal: a beautiful apartment with a wood burning fireplace; high ceilings; a balcony overlooking the living room (for high angle shots); a magnificent collection of original works by the likes of Chagall, Picasso, Miro, and Vassarely;…
From from the Briarpatch File
Back in 1927, when I was eleven years old and in the fifth grade at Mobile County Training School on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama, some twenty-plus years before Kenneth Burke's notion of art as basic equipment for living became a fundamental element in my concept of the pragmatic function of aesthetic statement, I was already trying to project myself as the storybook heroic me that I wanted to be by doing a syncopated sporty limp-walk to the …
Conversations with Albert Murray
As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and pro-found influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker Percy, Romare Bearden, and Wynton Marsalis have drawn from Murray and his ideas on jazz and the blues, modern consciousness, and the role of race in the American identity. Yet this is the first book devoted to Murray himself, and fittingly it …
The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
An All-Purpose, All-American Literary Intellectual: An Interview with Albert Murray
“An All-Purpose, All-American Literary Intellectual” An Interview with Albert Murray Albert Murray (bio) and Charles H. Rowell This interview was conducted by telephone on January 28, 1997, between Charlottesville, Virginia, and New York City. ROWELL I want to start at the very beginning: Nokomis, Alabama. What does that little Alabama town have to do with you now—Albert Murray, novelist, essayist, educator? Actually, I should also include Mobile…
The Vernacular Imperative: Duke Ellington's Place in the National Pantheon
A pantheon, as you probably already know even if you don't remember your Elementary Latin because you never studied any to begin with, is a sacred place dedicated to all of the gods, whether of a tribal community, a city-state, or an empire of one sort or another. The original of such consecrated places was a domed circular temple created in honor of all the gods of ancient Rome by the Emperor Hadrian, and the idea has long since been adopted and…
Comping for Count Basie
In autobiography as in fiction, nothing has more to do with what the story is really about than the voice of the narrator. So the main thing was to get his voice on the page. Everything else came after that. Incidents mean only as much as the way they are told makes them mean. If you couldn’t help him sound like himself in print, you’d probably be better off working on a book about Count Basie than on one by Count Basie about himself.
The Blues as Dance Music
With all their pseudo-inside wordplay, all the gratuitous redundancies about jazz which is to say blues music being an art form indigenous to the United States, and indeed with all their ever ready lip-service to the element of swing as a definitive factor of the idiom, when these very same reporter/reviewers give their evaluations of actual performances, whether live or on records, it is almost always as if they were writing about the concert mu…
Regional Particulars and Universal Statement in Southern Writing
As a very ambitious writer who would like to create fiction that will be of major interest not only as American literature but also as a part of contemporary writing in the world at large, I must say I am not primarily concerned with recording what it is like or what it means to be a Southerner or even a down home derived Afro-American. My concerns are more fundamentally existential, which is perhaps to say epical, if by epic we mean to suggest a…
Good Morning Blues
Every Day. The Story of Joe Williams
Nationality and local politics in late nineteenth-century Ireland: The case of County Westmeath
The work of K. Theodore Hoppen has forced historians of nineteenthcentury Ireland to question the role and significance of nationalism in politics, particularly local politics. Parochialism is for Hoppen the predominant political sentiment in Irish life. In the words of one reviewer, Charles Townshend, 'his general image is of an anarchic society pursuing its particular concerns in defiance of governments and revolutionaries alike’ Yet, as Townsh…
Agrarian Violence and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Myth of Ribbonism
Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place Revisted: A Review Essay
Train Whistle Guitar
The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture
The Omni Americans
The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture
From from the Briarpatch File
Back in 1927, when I was eleven years old and in the fifth grade at Mobile County Training School on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama, some twenty-plus years before Kenneth Burke's notion of art as basic equipment for living became a fundamental element in my concept of the pragmatic function of aesthetic statement, I was already trying to project myself as the storybook heroic me that I wanted to be by doing a syncopated sporty limp-walk to the …
Nationality and local politics in late nineteenth-century Ireland: The case of County Westmeath
The work of K. Theodore Hoppen has forced historians of nineteenthcentury Ireland to question the role and significance of nationalism in politics, particularly local politics. Parochialism is for Hoppen the predominant political sentiment in Irish life. In the words of one reviewer, Charles Townshend, 'his general image is of an anarchic society pursuing its particular concerns in defiance of governments and revolutionaries alike’ Yet, as Townsh…
Agrarian Violence and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Myth of Ribbonism
The Omni Americans
The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture
Train Whistle Guitar
Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place Revisted: A Review Essay
Nationality and local politics in late nineteenth-century Ireland: The case of County Westmeath
The work of K. Theodore Hoppen has forced historians of nineteenthcentury Ireland to question the role and significance of nationalism in politics, particularly local politics. Parochialism is for Hoppen the predominant political sentiment in Irish life. In the words of one reviewer, Charles Townshend, 'his general image is of an anarchic society pursuing its particular concerns in defiance of governments and revolutionaries alike’ Yet, as Townsh…
Agrarian Violence and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The Myth of Ribbonism
Good Morning Blues
Every Day. The Story of Joe Williams
Regional Particulars and Universal Statement in Southern Writing
As a very ambitious writer who would like to create fiction that will be of major interest not only as American literature but also as a part of contemporary writing in the world at large, I must say I am not primarily concerned with recording what it is like or what it means to be a Southerner or even a down home derived Afro-American. My concerns are more fundamentally existential, which is perhaps to say epical, if by epic we mean to suggest a…
The Blues as Dance Music
With all their pseudo-inside wordplay, all the gratuitous redundancies about jazz which is to say blues music being an art form indigenous to the United States, and indeed with all their ever ready lip-service to the element of swing as a definitive factor of the idiom, when these very same reporter/reviewers give their evaluations of actual performances, whether live or on records, it is almost always as if they were writing about the concert mu…
Comping for Count Basie
In autobiography as in fiction, nothing has more to do with what the story is really about than the voice of the narrator. So the main thing was to get his voice on the page. Everything else came after that. Incidents mean only as much as the way they are told makes them mean. If you couldn’t help him sound like himself in print, you’d probably be better off working on a book about Count Basie than on one by Count Basie about himself.
The Vernacular Imperative: Duke Ellington's Place in the National Pantheon
A pantheon, as you probably already know even if you don't remember your Elementary Latin because you never studied any to begin with, is a sacred place dedicated to all of the gods, whether of a tribal community, a city-state, or an empire of one sort or another. The original of such consecrated places was a domed circular temple created in honor of all the gods of ancient Rome by the Emperor Hadrian, and the idea has long since been adopted and…
An All-Purpose, All-American Literary Intellectual: An Interview with Albert Murray
“An All-Purpose, All-American Literary Intellectual” An Interview with Albert Murray Albert Murray (bio) and Charles H. Rowell This interview was conducted by telephone on January 28, 1997, between Charlottesville, Virginia, and New York City. ROWELL I want to start at the very beginning: Nokomis, Alabama. What does that little Alabama town have to do with you now—Albert Murray, novelist, essayist, educator? Actually, I should also include Mobile…
The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement
Conversations with Albert Murray
As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and pro-found influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker Percy, Romare Bearden, and Wynton Marsalis have drawn from Murray and his ideas on jazz and the blues, modern consciousness, and the role of race in the American identity. Yet this is the first book devoted to Murray himself, and fittingly it …
To Hear Another Language
On December 15, 1978, four longtime friends, Romare Bearden, Alvin Ailey, Albert Murray, and James Baldwin, gathered at the home of the art publisher, Hugh McKay. From the filmmaker's point-of-view, the location was ideal: a beautiful apartment with a wood burning fireplace; high ceilings; a balcony overlooking the living room (for high angle shots); a magnificent collection of original works by the likes of Chagall, Picasso, Miro, and Vassarely;…
From from the Briarpatch File
Back in 1927, when I was eleven years old and in the fifth grade at Mobile County Training School on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama, some twenty-plus years before Kenneth Burke's notion of art as basic equipment for living became a fundamental element in my concept of the pragmatic function of aesthetic statement, I was already trying to project myself as the storybook heroic me that I wanted to be by doing a syncopated sporty limp-walk to the …
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