Jazz / Blues / Music Classic—ALBERT MURRAY—Blue Devils of Nada

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “THE BLUE DEVILS OF NADA: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement” (Pantheon, 1996) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY ALBERT MURRAY • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “THE BLUE DEVILS OF NADA is a powerful and profound introduction to, and elaboration of, the blues aesthetic by one of the most percipient observers of the American cultural scene. It gives us the refined essence of ALBERT MURRAY’s life-time meditation on the blues as it informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in no uncertain terms what it means to be an American.” —THE PUBLISHER • “MR. MURRAY writes beautifully about the lives and technical achievements of the black musicians he so lovingly portrays.” —CHARLES JOHNSON, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A masterful performance. MURRAY is one of American literature’s most enduring writers and critics.” —CAROLYN M. JONES, AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW • “MURRAY is as close to a classic nineteenth-century man of letters as one might find in this country today.”—BOSTON GLOBE • “ALBERT MURRAY is one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary American literature. He is our premier writer about jazz and the blues, an incisive literary critic, a social commentator of wide-ranging vision, and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition.” —WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • ABOUT THE AUTHOR:• “ALBERT MURRAY is a man whose learning did not interfere with understanding. An authority on soul from the days of old, he is right on right back to back and commands respect. He doesn’t have to look it up. He already knows. If you want to know, look him up. He is the unsquarest person I know.”—DUKE ELLINGTON • “The last of the giants.” —JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON • “One of the most original stylists in American letters, a philosopher of the blues, who championed resilience and improvisation against the cold certainty of life’s uncertainties, and helped articulate and explain the dynamic synthesis that is American culture, as much black as it is white, if not more.”—PAUL DEVLIN, SLATE • “MURRAY is possessed of the poet’s language, the novelist’s sensibility, the essayist’s clarity, the jazzman’s imagination, the gospel singer’s depth of feeling.”—THE NEW YORKER • “Unlike [RALPH] ELLISON’s, MURRAY’s is not a household name. But it would be difficult to overestimate MURRAY’s influence on what are now multiple generations of writers and intellectuals, particularly those, as he himself might have put it, with brown skin….”—CLIFFORD THOMPSON, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS • “One of the most exquisite books of any year.”—BOSTON GLOBE • “MURRAY was a scholar, a philosopher, a novelist, an essayist, and an autobiographer.”—RICHARD BRODY, THE NEW YORKER • “His perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor and its tenacious hold on the intellect….” —TONI MORRISON, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.” —ALBERT MURRAY • “The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”—ALBERT MURRAY • The blues are “a statement about confronting the complexities inherent in the human situation…. It is also a statement about perseverance and about resilience and thus also…about achieving elegance in the very process of coping with the rudiments of subsistence.” • “It is sheer nonsense to insist that obstacles are really opportunities... [Yet] most stories are irrefutable evidence that such is precisely the great urgent secret which most of the great masters of fiction have always been trying to reveal.”—ALBERT MURRAY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE BLUE DEVILS OF NADA” SUBTITLE: “A CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN APPROACH TO AESTHETIC STATEMENT” AUTHOR: ALBERT MURRAY TYPE: HARDCOVERPUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Pantheon (New York), 1996 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Edition” & this Number Row: “”9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 307 ISBN: 0-679-44213-8 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($23.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Light wear along edges. Light smudging & scratching on sides (from normal handling) but overall DJ is bright & clean. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. 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