In 1995 and 1996, Albert Murray published two books: a novel titled The Seven League Boots and a work of cultural criticism, The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement. The former book extended the ongoing narrative of Murray’s semiautobiographical protagonist, named alternately Scooter and Schoolboy, who in two earlier volumes, like Murray himself, had made his way from an idyllic Alabama boyhood through matriculation at a historically black college. In this most recent novel, Scooter is called to join the traveling jazz orchestra of the Bossman, a vaguely Ellingtonian bandleader who has risen to Swing-era success as the self-proclaimed “Emperor of Syncopation.”1¹ Over the book’s picaresque course, Scooter travels widely, hobnobs with celebrities, and schools himself musically in jam sessions and on concert hall stages, all while engaging with fellow musicians and sundry bons vivants in a series of philosophical and expository conversations about music, Americanness, art, and twentieth-century life.

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“男生上台”：阿尔伯特·默里（Albert Murray）的“第七联盟靴子”作为音乐美学和音乐哲学的戏剧化

1995年和1996年，阿尔伯特·默里（Albert Murray）出版了两本书：一本名为《七盟军靴》的小说和一本文化批评的著作《纳达的蓝魔：当代美国人的审美观点》。前一本书扩展了默里的半自传主角，交替命名的史酷特和男生的叙事方式，后者在前两卷中都像默里本人一样，从田园诗般的阿拉巴马州少年时代起，进入了一所历史悠久的黑人大学就读。在这个最新的小说，滑板车被称为加入博斯曼，隐约Ellingtonian领队谁已经上升到摇摆时代的成功作为自封的行驶爵士乐团“切分音的皇帝。” 1 ¹在这本书的奇异风格课程中，Scooter出行广泛，与名人结缘，并在果酱演奏会和音乐厅舞台上进行音乐上的学习，同时与其他音乐家和各色糖果活泼的人进行了一系列关于音乐，美国性，艺术和20世纪的生活。