Stanley Crouch | Autore

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Stanley Lawrence Crouch was an author, poet, music and cultural critic, essayist and columnist. He was born on December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from high school in 1963, he attended several junior colleges and became active in the civil rights movement. He became mostra altro poet-in-residence at Pitzer College in in 1968. In 1975, he taught theater and literature at Pomona College. He moved to New York City in 1975 and worked as a musician and conducted bookings for an avant-garde jazz series at clubs. In 1980, he was hired as a staff writer for the Village Voice. In 1988, he was fired after a fistfight with a fellow writer. He then worked as a syndicated columnist based at the New York Daily News. His anthologies included Noted of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; The All-American Skin Game, or, The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994; Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997; and Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz. His fiction included, Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing. He wrote a biography, The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker. In 2016, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize. Stanley Crouch died on September 16, 2020 in New York City at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Opere di Stanley Crouch

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Fulmini a Kansas City: l'ascesa di Charlie Parker (2013) 150 copie

Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989 (1990) 103 copie

The All-American Skin Game, or Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994 (1995) 83 copie

Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz (1800) 80 copie

The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity (2004) 76 copie

Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk (2003) 45 copie

Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A novel (2000) 39 copie

Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives (1998) 37 copie

One Shot Harris: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris (2002) 32 copie

Flying Home Lionel Hampton: Celebrating 100 Years of Good Vibes, Exclusive CD Included! (2008) 11 copie

Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch (2022) 9 copie

Ain't no ambulances for no nigguhs tonight (1972) 6 copie

Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat (2005) 6 copie

EPHEMERA / MAGAZINE ARTICLE - The Colossus: Sonny Rollins on the Bandstand, The New Yorker, May 9, 2005 1 copia

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Middle Passage (1990) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 1,390 copie

Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Collaboratore — 429 copie

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) — Introduzione — 266 copie

The Best American Essays 1996 (1996) — Collaboratore — 132 copie

Travelers' Tales ITALY : True Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 114 copie

King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1605) — Introduzione — 92 copie

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Collaboratore — 92 copie

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (2021) — Collaboratore — 92 copie

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Collaboratore — 91 copie

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Collaboratore — 64 copie

The essential Harold Cruse : a reader (2002) — Prefazione — 19 copie

Reinventing the American People: Unity and Diversity Today (1995) — Collaboratore — 16 copie

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Nome canonico: Crouch, Stanley
Nome legale: Crouch, Stanley Lawrence
Data di nascita: 1945-12-14
Data di morte: 2020-09-16
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Los Angeles, California, USA
Luogo di morte: The Bronx, New York, USA
Causa della morte: COVID-19
Attività lavorative: music critic
jazz critic
journalist
novelist
poet
drummer
Organizzazioni: Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension
Premi e riconoscimenti: Whiting Writers' Award (1991)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2016)

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Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz di Stanley Crouch

Crouch could really write - the prologue, his long review of Miles Davis Live at Carnegie Hall, and his searing rebuttal to Clint Eastwood's Charlie Parker movie are truly fantastic essays and I would recommend them to anyone, whether they like jazz or not. But on too many of the other essays Crouch seems to get drunk on flights of rhetoric that do little for the reader and quickly become exhausting. And his use of the term "Negro" instead of "Black"--in the late '90s!--seems like an odd affectation, but I guess that's not for me to say.… (altro)

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