Thursday, November 30, 2017
by Steven Cerra
"Murray is possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling." — The New Yorker
"Beautifully illustrated with vivid period photos, LP covers, and broadsides of black jazz icons, Stomping the Blues represents the zenith of Murray's writing on the subject." — Rolling Stone
"One fine lyrical history of the music. Murray demonstrates the central role of blues/jazz in American culture, telling us about the nature of our past, present and future: which of course is exactly what the blues is." — San Francisco Review of Books
"A flamboyant, insightful examination and evocation of the sources, styles, and mythologies of blues music." — Newsweek
Jonathan Haidt is a NYU professor of social psychology who specializes in morality and moral emotions.
On November 15th he delivered the 2017 Wriston Lecture to the Manhattan Institute under the title - “The Age of Outrage: What It’s Doing to Our Universities and Our Country.”
Professor Haidt began his lecture by observing:
“Today’s identity politics . . . teaches the exact opposite of what we think a liberal arts education should be. When I was at Yale in the 1980s, I was given so many tools for understanding the world.
By the time I graduated, I could think about things as a utilitarian or as a Kantian, as a Freudian or a behaviorist, as a computer scientist or as a humanist. I was given many lenses to apply to any given question or problem.
But what do we do now? Many students are given just one lens—power. Here’s your lens, kid. Look at everything through this lens. Everything is about power. Every situation is analyzed in terms of the bad people acting to preserve their power and privilege over the good people.
read more at: http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com.br/2017/11/albert-murray-stomping-blues-40th.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+JazzProfiles+(Jazz+Profiles)
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