The Blue Devils of Nada Paperback by Albert Murray

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1997-06-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 256 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679758594
• Item Weight: 243.33 grams
• Dimensions: 20.07 x 13.21 x 1.42 cm

Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in no uncertain terms what it means to be American.

About the Author

Albert Murray is the author of The Omni-Americans, Stomping the Blues, The Hero and the Blues, South to a Very Old Place, Conjugations and Reiterations, and From the Briarpatch File. He is the coauthor of Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie and the coeditor of Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. He lives in New York City.