The Hero And The Blues

By Albert Murray | DMCA

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...

File Size: 2801 KB
Print Length: 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (September 19, 2012)
Publication Date: September 19, 2012
Sold by: Random House LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00A1P093C
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