Conversations with Albert Murray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4547007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warren J Carson (corresponding author), Albert Murray, Roberta S Maguire |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 547 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Penn State Press (Project Muse) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2901406 |
| OpenAlex | W566593842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
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 is based on the kind of conversations that have proven indispensable to his friends in the arts. It brings together twenty interviews with Murray conducted over the last twenty-four years, beginning with an interview shortly after his second book, South to a Very Old Place, was published, and ending with a previously unpublished interview with Roberta S. Maguire. In these conversations Murray discusses those who influenced him - Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington - and tells how they helped him develop a philosophy of art based on the blues as well as a new archetype of the American hero, the blues hero
Art · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2021 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |