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Author:

Murray, Albert.

Title:

From the briarpatch file : on context, procedure, and American identity / Albert Murray.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

viii, 195 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Murray, Albert.
Murray, Albert--Political and social views.
Arts, American--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African American arts.
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--1945-

Contents:

Antagonistic cooperation in Alabama -- Context and definition -- Academic lead sheet -- Art as such -- Riffing at Mrs. Jack's Place -- Made in America: the achievement of Duke Ellington -- Me and old Duke -- Me and old Uncle Billy and the American atmosphere -- The HNIC who he -- Soul brothers abroad -- Freedom bound U.S.A. -- The good old boys down yonder -- The "reconstruction" of Robert Penn Warren -- Louis Armstrong in his own world -- Manhattan in the twenties -- The blue steel, rawhide, patent leather implications of fairy tales -- An all purpose, all-American literary intellectual.

ISBN:

9780375421426
0375421424

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46836919

LCCN:

2001031402

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)