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| Introduction: Blues to You, Part III | 3 | |
| Pt. 1 | To Throw an Arm Around Life and Move with It: An Overture in Themes | 11 |
| Blues for Tomorrow: A Gathering of Commentaries on Our American Condition | 13 | |
| Pt. 2 | A Number One Himself: Reflections on a Master | 41 |
| Duke Ellington: Transcontinental Swing | 43 | |
| Pt. 3 | Celebrity Nudes: Bloodshed, Sex, and Narcissism | 67 |
| Truth Crushed to Earth | 69 | |
| The Dardenilla Dilemma: Selling Hostile Chocolate and Vanilla Animus | 78 | |
| The Dream Was Not in Place | 94 | |
| Blues for Three Widows | 97 | |
| The Huffing and Puffing Military Blues | 102 | |
| The King of Narcissism | 106 | |
| Pt. 4 | Regarding Books: Homeric or Not? | 111 |
| Two on the Money | 114 | |
| Bible Belt Greco-Roman Blues: The Shadow of the Negro | 117 | |
| The Blues Is the Accompaniment | 128 | |
| Some Words about Albert Murray: Universal Counterpoint from the Bass Clef | 132 | |
| Somebody Knew | 179 | |
| Pt. 5 | Foreign Intrigue: Some Dateline Ganders and Musings | 189 |
| Downstairs Blues Upstairs | 191 | |
| World War II at Fifty | 194 | |
| Hiroshima, Mon Amour | 197 | |
| Who's Sorry Now? | 200 | |
| Patty-Cake with Blood | 203 | |
| Forgotten Girl-Slave Blues | 206 | |
| Whose Business Is Our Business? | 209 | |
| Trouble in the East | 212 | |
| Pt. 6 | Up from the Grim: Transitional Speculation, Ron Brown, and a Christmas Card | 217 |
| Who Will Enjoy the Shadow of Whom? | 219 | |
| Meditation on Ron Brown, in Two Parts | 228 | |
| Spirits Spun in Gold | 233 | |
| Pt. 7 | Images of Light in Dark Rooms: Some Cinematic Achievements | 237 |
| Two Out of Three: Reinventing Americana | 243 | |
| Blues at the Gallows Pole | 252 | |
| The Radio Play Goes Public as the Sit-down Raises Up | 255 | |
| The Nutty Professor | 265 | |
| Bull Feeney Plays the Blues: John Ford and the Meaning of Democracy | 268 | |
| Pt. 8 | Shout-Chorus on the Way Out: How Dare We Do All the Things We Dare to Do? | 289 |
| Blues to Be Redefined | 291 | |
| Index | 311 |
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Christopher Campbell
reviewed Always in pursuit on March 26, 2014
Always in pursuit
A 1990's book that is of a type that makes you realize how much you do not know. The book is a collection of essays, magazine articles, speeches and other stuff. I enjoyed the author's observations about Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Tupac, and Princess Diana. There was much more in the book, but it is not necessarily a book for all ages. His commentary regarding the evolution of democracy is insightful and I totally agree with his "Hiroshima, Mon Amour". I found helpful the author's commentary about America and its: place in the world, contradictions, involvement in foreign places, and potential. I thought the author's observation that Americans are involved in a perpetual struggle of what should be against what is offered hope that America could still reach its potential. His comparison of John Ford's movies with the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington seemed a noble effort, but I did not get it. However, I enjoyed reading his effort at comparison. It helped that I had seen all the movies that were examined. Sometimes it seemed his writing, especially when writing about music, attained a lyrical quality with a 4/4 beat. While I may be over reaching here, I did have the feeling that he was writing to a beat. I was in awe by some of his "right-on" analogies. His perspectives, for me anyway, open up new ways of looking at things and were confirming of other things. I suspect the book will most likely resonate with an older reader (older reader or one who's hair is moving to gray). Although, his section on the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombing should be read by all.
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