Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch - Couverture rigide

Crouch, Stanley

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ISBN 10 : 1324090901 ISBN 13 : 9781324090908

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022

Synopsis

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In these essays--some discovered on his computer, unpublished until now--Crouch tackles subjects ranging from Malcolm X ("a thorned bud standing in the shadow of sequoias") to the films of Quentin Tarantino ("With Django,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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

"A stylish butcher of sacred cows" (Salon), and self-described "radical-pragmatist" Stanley Crouch (1945-2020) was a columnist, novelist, essayist, and television commentator. A cofounder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, he is the author of eight critically acclaimed books.

Glenn Mott edited Crouch's "American Perspectives" columns for over a decade.

A staff writer at The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb was a former student of Stanley Crouch.

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, and educator. He is the artistic director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324090901
• ISBN 13: 9781324090908
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Éditeur: Mott Glenn
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