Stanley Crouch Links

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Stanley Crouch's e-mail address is scrouch@edit.nydailynews.com

1998 Stanley Crouch book

These are all the relevant, non-duplicating links I have found so far--
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Crouch articles and interviews (books are further down):
A Fireside Chat with Stanley Crouch By Fred Jung on AllAboutJazz.com
1997 interview with Stanley Crouch
2001 interview with Stanley Crouch in The American Enterprise
Crouch interview on Ellison and other things in "Jerry Jazz Muscian"
N.Y. Daily News archive of Stanley Crouch columns
Crouch columns on Salon.com, Feb.-May, 2000
More current (?) link to Stanley Crouch's columns at Salon.com
AFTER YOU'VE GONE - Cherry on Top - By Stanley Crouch
Don Cherry, took jazz on wild ride - by Stanley Crouch, The New York Daily News
Crouch and David Gergen on the POLITICS OF BLAME - FEBRUARY 22, 1996 - TRANSCRIPT
SWINGIN' TO THE DIGITAL TIMES-- Technology was essential to jazz's evolution, and is good for culture, though no panacea.
"America's Got the Blues, Hallelujah!" -- brief quotation and citation to article.
Citation to Crouch's response to Baraka's "JAZZ CRITICISM AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ART FORM", incl. quotation: "In an effort to reduce the artistry of jazz to no more than political pulp, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) has simplified the complexity of inspiration, invention, adaption, and context to a battlefield on which black victims ..."
To find more Crouch columns, go to The New York Daily News. Click on Search. Click Search Archives. Then type in Crouch.
Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk and Wynton Marsalis
Legend's wife [Sue Mingus] has a real jazzy way to get even with bootleggers

Articles on Crouch
Hanging the Judge (Voice article on Jazz Times firing Crouch. Has some great quotes by and about him, including comments from Amiri Baraka and Nat Henthoff.)
Salon magazine profile of Crouch
Detailed Stanley Crouch bio
Preview of "Blues for Tomorrow" speech
Albert Murray, Crouch's mentor
Picture and brief bio
Great, short blurb with quotes about Crouch "... one group is everybody else and the other is Stanley Crouch ... a strong enemy of the lies and illusions our country has, piercing the
plump, self-satisfied dogmas of racists and nationalists alike ... a true intellectual warrior."
Harsh purist Crouch "does not believe in fusion"

Reviews of Crouch books
Stanley Crouch offers doses of hectoring and passion -- Phoenix review of Skin Game
Book review: The All-American Skin Game or The Decoy of Race

Materials quoting Crouch
Article quoting Crouch on Ali
Right Values: Light in an Age of Confusion -- article quoting Peggy Noonan's TV interview of Crouch

Book ordering pages:
"Always in Pursuit : Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997" by Stanley Crouch, $17.50 from Amazon, Hardcover, Expected publication date: February 1, 1998 . If URL doesn't come through on link, it's http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0375401539/e
"Jazz from the Beginning" by Garvin Bushell, Mark Tucker, Stanley Crouch, September 1998
URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=030680848X/e
Order Notes of a Hanging Judge : Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; Stanley Crouch; Paperback; $11.65
Order Notes of a Hanging Judge : Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989; Stanley Crouch; Hardcover; $34.75
Order The All-American Skin Game, Or, the Decoy of Race : The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994; Stanley Crouch; Paperback; $10.80
Order The All-American Skin Game, Or, the Decoy of Race : The Long and Short of It, 1990-1994; Stanley Crouch; Hardcover; $19.20
Order Mr. Sammler's Planet (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics); Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch; Paperback; $10.75

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Tangential Trivia
Stanley Crouch: Acid Jazz Archive, by Gen M. Kanai
Discussion questions about The All-American Skin Game

A former student of his writes:
I remember Mr.Crouch from the spring of '69 when
he was my English teacher at Pitzer College and he
used to elicit waves of laughter from the class
by standing next to the podium and uttering 2
words: "Tom Jones!" (It was sort of a running
joke/commentary on his part about that Welsh
singing guy who had a very popular TV show
at the time). Then there were the 2 weeks when Mr.
Crouch didn't show up for class because of high school
demonstrations in L.A. and nobody knew if he was
ever coming back to finish the class and some of us who
were about to graduate were wondering if we
were going to get in those units or not. He did
return and it was a good class, never a dull
moment. I have wondered if this famous
literary man is the same Mr. Crouch from those
days, and it seems that he is.
Ah, the '60's! What a decade!

The other Stanley Crouch has a web page, a "Crouch Group," and his own Stanley R. Crouch alumni page. He looks a lot like my relatives, especially around the ears. Links to his pages:
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~srcgroup/stanhome.html
http://www.textbookland.com/author/Stanley+R.+Crouch
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/6306/zeta/crouch.html
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~srcgroup/
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~srcgroup/alumni.html


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