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The Hero and the Blues

The Hero and the Blues

Murray, Albert

Paperback

Literary CriticismBlack American StudiesBlues & Soul

ISBN10: 0679762205
ISBN13: 9780679762201
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 16 1996
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
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 fiction and the blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential human values and cosmic absurdity.

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