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| Size | | Length: | 238 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
" 'The Blue Devils of Nada' focuses on Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Romare Bearden, and Ernest Hemingway, and affirms the American values the author finds in their works and lives: a dedication to craft, discipline, courage, practicality, inventiveness, a sense of fund and pleasure, a knowledge of and contribution to aesthetic tradition, a belief in hope and human possibility, a tenacious resilience and a consequent uniquely personal style. The essays are thoughtful celebrations but also pointed arguments. This is a valuable book because the writer has something to say about the culture we share....In restoring to our conscious memories of the full complexity of Hemingway and his work, the irreverence and pride of Louis Armstrong, and the sterling qualities of those other men, Murray has performed a cultural service."
Quarterly Black Review of Books - Daniel Garrett
"Stringent in Aesthetic matters, the magnanimous Murry has no time for the 'fakelore of black pathology' . But he's totally on time when it comes to great art, and in a critical idiom that's his alone."
Stoyle
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