NYC Launch of "Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation"

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On June 17, contributors to Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation gathered at Jazz at Lincoln Center to celebrate its publication.

Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation is published by Pebble Hill Books, a cooperative publishing venture of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities and the University of Alabama Press.

The collection includes essays on various aspects of Murray's work written by prominent scholars of African American literature, jazz and Albert Murray. It also includes reminiscences from Murray's friends and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. The collection testifies to Murray's place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American cultural pioneer.