TY - BOOK AU - Murray,Albert TI - The blue devils of Nada: a contemporary American approach to aesthetic statement SN - 9780307828620 AV - NX512.3.M877.B584 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - African American arts KW - African American artists KW - Psychology KW - Blues (Music) KW - Influence KW - Arts noirs américains KW - Artistes noirs américains KW - Psychologie KW - fast KW - Blues KW - gnd KW - Kunst KW - Schwärze KW - USA N1 - Includes index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2014 N2 - To Albert Murray the blues is not about suffering but about transcendence through sheer style pinpointed in the work of such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Romare Bearden, Ernest Hemingway. Murray demolishes our stereotypes about art, race, and what it means to be human in an intelligent and whirlwind tour of American culture UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=0cNXAAAAYAAJ UR - http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/37576491.html UR - http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9780307828620 ER -