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__**The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and** **Alabama** **native Albert Murray**__ This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural pioneer. Born in Nokomis, Alabama, and raised in Mobile, Albert Murray graduated from Tuskegee University, where he later taught, but he has long resided in New York City. He is the author of many critically acclaimed novels, memoirs, and essay collections, among them __The Omni-Americans__, __South to a Very Old Place, Train Whistle Guitar__, __The Spyglass Tree__, and __The Seven League Boots__. He is also a critic and visual artist, as well as a lifelong friend of and collaborator with artistic luminaries such as Ralph Ellison, Duke Ellington, and Romare Bearden. As such, his life and work are testaments to the centrality of southern and African American aesthetics in American art. Murray is widely viewed as a figure who, through his art
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- Author
- Dr. Barbara A. Baker PhD (Editor)
- Publisher
- Pebble Hill Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780817316976
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities