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Author Murray, Albert.

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

Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306 M961f 2001 c.2  ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  306 M961f 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 195 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Subject United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Arts, American -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African American arts.
Murray, Albert.
Murray, Albert -- Political and social views.
ISBN 0375421424
9780375421426

 
    
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