Always in Pursuit
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As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on the uniqueness of the American South, the death of Tupak Shakur, the O.J. Simpson verdict, or the damage done by the Oklahoma City bombing, Crouch's high-velocity exchange with American culture is conducted with scrupulous allegiance to the truth, even when it hurts-and it usually does. And on the subject of jazz-from Sidney Bechet to Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington to Miles Davis-there is no one more articulate, impassioned, and encyclopedic in his knowledge than Stanley Crouch. Crouch approaches everything in his path with head-on energy, restless intelligence, and a refreshing faith in the collective experiment that is America-and he does so in a virtuosic prose style that is never less than thrilling.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Blues to You, Part III
- Part One: To Throw an Arm Around Life and Move with It: An Overture in Themes
- Blues for Tomorrow: A Gathering of Commentaries on Our American Condition
- Part Two: A Number One Himself Reflections on a Master
- Duke Ellington: Transcontinental Swing
- Part Three: Celebrity Nudes: Bloodshed, Sex, and Narcissism
- Truth Crushed to Earth
- The Dardenilla Dilemma: Selling Hostile Chocolate and Vanilla Animus
- The Dream Was Not in Place
- Blues for Three Widows
- The Huffing and Puffing Military Blues
- The King of Narcissism
- Part Four: Regarding Books: Homeric or Not?
- Two on the Money
- Bible Belt Greco-Roman Blues: The Shadow of the Negro
- The Blues Is the Accompaniment
- Some Words about Albert Murray: Universal Counterpoint from the Bass Clef
- Somebody Knew
- Part Five: Foreign Intrigue: Some Dateline Ganders and Musings
- Downstairs Blues Upstairs
- World War II at Fifty
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- Who's Sorry Now?
- Patty-Cake with Blood
- Forgotten Girl-Slave Blues
- Whose Business Is Our Business?
- Trouble in the East
- Part Six: Up from the Grim: Transitional Speculation, Ron Brown, and a Christmas Card
- Who Will Enjoy the Shadow of Whom?
- Meditation on Ron Brown, in Two Parts
- Spirits Spun in Gold
- Part Seven: Images of Light in Dark Rooms: Some Cinematic Achievements
- Two Out of Three: Reinventing Americana
- Blues at the Gallows Pole
- John Henry Versus the Minstrel Machine
- The Radio Play Goes Public as the Sit-down Raises Up
- The Nutty Professor
- Bull Feeney Plays the Blues: John Ford and the Meaning of Democracy
- Part Eight: Coming From Strength
- Miles Davis in the Fever of Spring, 1961
- Part Nine: Shout-Chorus on the Way Out: How Dare We Do All the Things We Dare to Do?
- Blues to Be Redefined
- Permissions Acknowledgments
