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ISBN
9781324090908
Book Title
Victory Is Assured : Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
Item Length
9.3 in
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Year
2022
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Stanley Crouch
Genre
Music, Literary Collections
Topic
History & Criticism, Essays, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
27.8 Oz
Number of Pages
496 Pages

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With Stanley Crouch's untimely death in 2020, American literature lost "a critic without peer" (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouch--a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all time--was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite. Beloved yet cantankerous, Crouch delighted and enflamed the passions of his readers in equal measure, whether writing about race, politics, literature, or music. In these essays--some discovered on his computer, unpublished until now--Crouch tackles subjects ranging from Malcolm X ("a thorned bud standing in the shadow of sequoias") to the films of Quentin Tarantino ("With Django, Tarantino has slipped down . . . into a shallow and bloodstained hip-hop turn that his own best work has well-refuted"). Introduced by Jelani Cobb, with an afterword by Wynton Marsalis, and collected by his longtime editor Glenn Mott, Victory Is Assured canonizes the legacy of an inimitable, indispensable American critic.

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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
1324090901
ISBN-13
9781324090908
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25057253943

Product Key Features

Book Title
Victory Is Assured : Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
Author
Stanley Crouch
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Essays, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Music, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
496 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
27.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3553.R575v53 2022
Reviews
Stanley Crouch's development as a critic is on full display in this standout collection of 58 essays, described by Mott in his preface as a sort of 'intellectual autobiography.' 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Dues' is a stunning account of Duke Ellington playing at Disneyland in 1973, while "The King of Constant Repudiation" delivers a takedown of what Crouch considered phony activism: he writes of critic LeRoi Jones that 'he has almost completely traded-in a brilliant and complex talent for the most obvious hand-me-down ideas, which he projects in second-rate pool hall braggadocio.' Nor did Crouch sympathize with hollow notions of machismo--he writes in 'Miles Davis, Romantic Hero' about finding in Davis's performances 'public visions of tenderness that were, finally, absolute rejections of everything silly about the version of masculinity that might hobble men in either the white or the Black world.' Most of all, it is Crouch's abiding humanism that comes through, casting a critical eye on 'those 'race men,' Black or white, who think they love Black people but only as receptacles for theories that use data to remove the mystery from life.' This is an essential collection for fans of Crouch's writing, or anyone interested in the art of cultural criticism.--Publishers Weekly, starred review, "Stanley Crouch's development as a critic is on full display in this standout collection of 58 essays, described by Mott in his preface as a sort of 'intellectual autobiography.' 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Dues' is a stunning account of Duke Ellington playing at Disneyland in 1973, while "The King of Constant Repudiation" delivers a takedown of what Crouch considered phony activism: he writes of critic LeRoi Jones that 'he has almost completely traded-in a brilliant and complex talent for the most obvious hand-me-down ideas, which he projects in second-rate pool hall braggadocio.' Nor did Crouch sympathize with hollow notions of machismo--he writes in 'Miles Davis, Romantic Hero' about finding in Davis's performances 'public visions of tenderness that were, finally, absolute rejections of everything silly about the version of masculinity that might hobble men in either the white or the Black world.' Most of all, it is Crouch's abiding humanism that comes through, casting a critical eye on 'those 'race men,' Black or white, who think they love Black people but only as receptacles for theories that use data to remove the mystery from life.' This is an essential collection for fans of Crouch's writing, or anyone interested in the art of cultural criticism."
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Lccn
2022-029088

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