English | 1996 | ISBN: 0679762205 | 107 pages | EPUB | 1.7 MB
In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in chag the way one reads literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance...