Stanley Crouch (1945–2020)

Autor von Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker

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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen

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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (2013) 150 Exemplare

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

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

Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz (1800) 80 Exemplare

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

Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk (2003) 45 Exemplare

Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A novel (2000) 41 Exemplare

Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives (1998) 38 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Die Überfahrt (1990) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 1,394 Exemplare

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

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) — Einführung — 268 Exemplare

The Best American Essays 1996 (1996) — Mitwirkender — 133 Exemplare

Travelers' Tales ITALY : True Stories (1998) — Mitwirkender — 115 Exemplare

Martin Luther King (1605) — Einführung — 100 Exemplare

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

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (2021) — Mitwirkender — 92 Exemplare

Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Mitwirkender — 91 Exemplare

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Mitwirkender — 64 Exemplare

The essential Harold Cruse : a reader (2002) — Vorwort — 19 Exemplare

Reinventing the American People: Unity and Diversity Today (1995) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: Crouch, Stanley
Rechtmäßiger Name: Crouch, Stanley Lawrence
Geburtstag: 1945-12-14
Todestag: 2020-09-16
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Geburtsort: Los Angeles, California, USA
Sterbeort: The Bronx, New York, USA
Todesursache: COVID-19
Berufe: Musikkritiker
Jazzkritiker
Journalist
Novellist
Organisationen: Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension
Preise und Auszeichnungen: Whiting Writers' Award (1991)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2016)

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Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz von 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.… (mehr)

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