Conversations with Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1604738944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Valuable Insight into a Major Writer's Development This lively, fascinating book yields valuable insight into the biographical genesis and intellectual formation of one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals. Novelist, jazz and music critic, cultural commentator, Murray wrote with an incomparable, blues and jazz inflected lyricism that truly 'sang'. As these interviews demonstrate, he spoke this way, too, with vast erudition, ebullient charisma, a down home spice and piquancy, and, finally a compelling aesthetic and world view, universal in scope, vividly and memorably idiomatic in expr
Maguire is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.. The collection reveals a man who enjoys a good time and a good conversation and whose intellectual improvisations move over such subjects as his reminiscences about the South he grew up in, his insights about regional culture, and commentaries about the contemporary American scene. As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound 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. He is quick to laugh, to conspire, to correct misperceptions, to mimic the sounds a great jazz musician makes, or to recite lines from