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Living with Music

Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings

Living with Music( )
Author: Ellison, Ralph
Editor: O'Meally, Robert G.
Foreword by: Marsalis, Wynton
ISBN:978-0-679-64034-9
Publication Date:May 2001
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Modern Library
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

No other reference analyzes the origins, development, programs, publications, and political action of 180 major American organizations concerned with women's issues in such depth. Over 100 experts give an overview of how national women's groups of all kinds and representing varied and broad segments of society have had an impact on a wide array of public policy issues in Washington in recent years. An introduction provides a content analysis, general background, and historical...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.828 x 7.02 Inches
Book Weight:0.747 Pounds
Author Biography
Ellison, Ralph (Author)
Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994) has the distinction of being one of the few writers who has established a firm literary reputation on the strength of a single work of long fiction. Writer and teacher, Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, studied at Tuskegee Institute, and has lectured at New York, Columbia, and Fisk universities and at Bard College. He received the Prix de Rome from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955, and in 1964 he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has contributed short stories and essays to various publications.

Invisible Man (1952), his first novel, won the National Book Award for 1953 and is considered an impressive work. It is a vision of the underground man who is also the invisible African American, and its possessor has employed this subterranean view and viewer to so extraordinary an advantage that the impression of the novel is that of a pioneer work. A book of essays, Shadow and Act, which discusses the African American in America and Ellison's Oklahoma boyhood, among other topics, appeared in 1964.

Ralph Ellison died on April 16, 1994 of pancreatic cancer and was interred in a crypt at Trinity Church Cemetery in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan.

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