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A look at jazz and blues by an author "Newsweek" calls "one of America's most influential cultural figures." Not merely a history of the blues, this is also an examination of the aesthetics and the values of blues compositions and how they relate to African-American culture. Includes information on Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Don Redman, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, and Miles Davis.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...the most eloquent book ever written about African American music."
Stanley Crouch
"[Murray is] my mentor, but it's more than that. 'Stomping the Blues' had a profound impact on me in terms of understanding the context of the art form, and the society."
Newsweek - Wynton Marsalis (02/05/1996)
"[Murray] is one of the foremost literary interpreters of blues, jazz, and improvisation."
New York Times Book Review - Brent Staples
"What many who hear the blues these days fail to understand is how basically optimistic this music is, as Albert Murray so rightly points out in STOMPING THE BLUES. "With all its preoccupation with the most disturbing aspects of life, it is something contrived specifically to be performed as entertainment. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in his nonchalance," writes Murray, to good effect."
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