The Hero and the Blues
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In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance to their audiences; both place a high value on improvisation; and both fiction and the blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential huma…
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Social SciencesPrint BooksMusic, Film & Performing ArtsLiteraturePaperbackNonfictionAfrican AmericansMusicAfrican Americans - General & MiscellaneousAfrican American Arts & EntertainmentLiterary CriticismBluesGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismAmerican LiteratureAfrican American Literature - Literary CriticismLiterary Criticism - General & MiscellaneousBlues - General & MiscellaneousAfrican Americans - General & Miscellaneous



