Albert Murray was born in Alabama in 1916. A cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, he has taught at several colleges, including Colgate and Barnard, and his works include The Omni-Americans, South to a Very Old Place(nominated for a National Book Award), The Hero and the Blues, and Trading Twelve: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray. He has also won the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award for Stomping the Blues.
Stomping the Blues
by Albert MurrayView All Available Formats & Editions
This study of the blues by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music—a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.
Overview
This study of the blues by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music—a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780306803628
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press
- Publication date:
- 08/28/1989
- Series:
- Quality Paperbacks Series
- Edition description:
- REV
- Pages:
- 272
- Product dimensions:
- 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
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