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He published 14 books over the course of his career, all of which are still in print. However, the bulk of his manuscripts are at the W. He saw them as a resilient, black, brown and beige people; partially-descended from Africa, but fully American in outlook, character and aspiration. He saw art, music and literature, not in Marxist terms, but aesthetically descending from fairy tales, myths, and the wisdom of the ages, passed down from time immemorial from every culture around the world.

Auden, and literary and cultural theorists Kenneth Burke and John A. He takes issue with what he sees as the one-dimensional visions of black life in the works of psychologist Kenneth Clarke and writers James Baldwin and Richard Wright and Gordon Parks. The Hero and the Blues are essays culled from the Paul Brick Lectures on Ethics he gave at the University of Missouri, where he posits how the bluesman heroically confronts the dragons of entropy and despair, not to destroy them, but to keep them at bay.

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Murray elaborated and refined that concept of heroic confrontation in Stomping the Blues , his magnificently illustrated book on blues and jazz, which won of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Most critics cite Train Whistle Guitar , as his best novel. Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation , is the first anthology dedicated to his works.