{"product_id":"9781598535037","title":"Albert Murray: Collected Essays \u0026 Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans \/ South to a Very Old Place \/ The Hero and the Blues \/ Stomping the Blues \/ The Blue Devils of NADA \/ Other Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his 1970 classic \u003ci\u003eThe Omni-Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, Albert Murray (1916–2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the “pathology” of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the “blues-hero tradition”— a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity. Murray went on to refine these ideas in \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Devils of Nada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFrom the Briarpatch File\u003c\/i\u003e, and all three landmark collections of essays are gathered here for the first time, together with Murray’s memoir\u003ci\u003e South to a Very Old Place\u003c\/i\u003e, his brilliant lecture series \u003ci\u003eThe Hero and the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, his masterpiece of jazz criticism \u003ci\u003eStomping the Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, and eight previously uncollected pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059799310576,"sku":"9781598535037","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598535037_p0.jpg?v=1763824908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598535037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}