From the briarpatch file : on context, procedure, and American identity / Albert Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murray, Albert.

Political and social views.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Intellectual life.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

Arts, American--20th century.

Arts, American.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African American arts.

Murray, Albert--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2001]

Summary:

Murray is "an all-purpose, all-American literary intellectual." In "From the Briarpatch File, " he writes as engagingly about "New York in the Twenties" as about the beginnings of his career as a writer. He is as profound in his assessment of the achievement of Duke Ellington as in his appreciation of William Faulkner. He is as provocative in his outline of the responsibilities of the black educated elite as in his discourses on the near-tragic, near-comic essence of the blues.

Contents:

Antagonistic cooperation in Alabama

Context and definition

Academic lead sheet

Art as such

Riffing at Mrs. Jack's Place

Made in America: the achievement of Duke Ellington

Me and old Duke

Me and old Uncle Billy and the American atmosphere

The HNIC who he

Soul brothers abroad

Freedom bound U.S.A.

The good old boys down yonder

The "reconstruction" of Robert Penn Warren

Louis Armstrong in his own world

Manhattan in the twenties

The blue steel, rawhide, patent leather implications of fairy tales

An all purpose, all-American literary intellectual.

ISBN:

0375421424

OCLC:

46836919