Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

by Baker, Barbara A.; Gramberg, Anne-Katrin

• ISBN13: 9780817355937
• ISBN10: 0817355936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-29
• Publisher: Pebble Hill Books

Summary

This is the first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert Murray. The collection consists of essays and interviews written by prominent scholars of African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray that illustrate Murray's place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural pioneer. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Barbara A. Baker is Director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Auburn University. She is the author of The Blues Aesthetic and the Making of American Identity in the Literature of the South.
Anne-Katrin Gramberg is Professor of German and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Observations, Interpretations, and Conversations
In Response to Being Awarded a Citation for Distinguished Literary Achievement by an Alabamian (2003)	p. 13
King of Cats (1996)	p. 15
Trading Twelves: The Omni-American Literary Identity of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison	p. 37
Cosmos Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation	p. 52
Albert Murray and Visual Art	p. 68
Murray and Mann: Variations on a Theme	p. 84
Dewey's Pragmatism Extended: Education and Aesthetic Practice in Train Whistle Guitar	p. 102
Albert Murray and Tuskegee Institute: Art as the Measure of Place	p. 114
A Conversation with Albert Murray (1996)	p. 130
Albert Murray's House of Blues (1997)	p. 138
An Interview with Michele Murray	p. 147
Conjugations and Reiterations: An Interview with Albert Murray (2003)	p. 155
Murray's Mulatto America	p. 164
Chinaberry Tree, Chinaberry Tree	p. 179
Scooter Comes Home	p. 191
Reminiscences and Appreciations
Wynton Marsalis on Albert Murray (2001)	p. 199
Albert Murray's Du Bois Medal Citation (2007)	p. 202
At the Bar and on the Avenue with My Pal Al Murray	p. 204
My Beginnings with Albert	p. 207
The White Man Between Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch	p. 209
On Michael James and Albert Murray	p. 211
Michael James on Albert Murray	p. 214
Greg Thomas and "the Professor"	p. 216
Life and Literature Lessons Learned	p. 219
A Giant in Heart and Mind	p. 221
My Travels through Cosmos Murray	p. 223
Afternoons with Murray: Heart and Soul in the Key of Swing	p. 227
Works Cited	p. 231
Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 241
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