| LC control no. | n 88252240 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3553.R575 |
| Personal name heading | Crouch, Stanley |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization) |
| Other standard no. | 000000011474616X 71526379 Q355531 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1945-12-14 |
| Death date | 2020-09-16 |
| Place of birth | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Music Jazz |
| Affiliation | Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization) Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) Pitzer College New York Daily News (Newspaper) Watts Repertory Theatre Company Village Voice (Newspaper) Esquire (Magazine) New Republic (Magazine) New Yorker (Magazine) |
| Profession or occupation | Music critics Music journalists College teachers Political activists Authors |
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| Found in | Notes of a hanging judge, 1989: CIP title page (Stanley Crouch) data sheet (Village voice reporter) LC data base, 6/19/89 (hdg.: Crouch, Stanley) Bellow, S. Mr. Sammler's planet, 1996: title page (Stanley Crouch) page i (founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center; board member of Louis Armstrong Foundation) Live at the Peace Church [SR] 1991: label (Stanley Crouch) New Grove dict. of jazz (Crouch, Stanley; b. Dec. 14, 1945, Los Angeles; poet, writer, and drummer) Kansas City lightning, the rise and times of Charlie Parker, 2013: title page (Stanley Crouch) dust jacket flap (Jazz music critic; artistic consultant for Jazz programming at Lincoln Center; founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center; regular columnist for the New York Daily News) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Crouch, Stanley; music critic, cultural critic; born 14 Dec. 1945 in Los Angeles, California, United States; attended the East Los Angeles Junior College, where he became involved in a poverty program in which he taught a literacy class. Witnessing the Watts riots in 1965 made him even more of an activist, and he became a Black Nationalist, although he would in short time come to oppose the movement. He was an actor and a playwright at Studio Watts and the Watts Repertory Theatre Company; despite his lack of a college degree taught English at Claremont's Pomona College and black studies at Pitzer College (1968-1975); moved in 1975 to New York City; jazz critic for the Village Voice (1979-1988); consultant at the Lincoln Center; also wrote for Esquire, the New York Daily News, the New Republic, and the New Yorker) New York Times, obituary dated September 16, 2020, viewed September 17, 2020: (Stanley Crouch, the fiercely iconoclastic social critic who elevated the invention of jazz into a metaphor for the indelible contributions that Black people have made to American democracy, died on Wednesday at a hospital in the Bronx. He was 74.) New York times, 17 Sept. 2021: in an obituary on page B12 (Stanley Crouch; born Stanley Lawrence Crouch Dec. 14, 1945 in the South Central section of Los Angeles, died Wednesday [Sept. 16] in the Bronx [N.Y.], aged 74; a critic who saw American Democracy in Jazz; all the while [Crouch] championed jazz,enlarging its presence in American culture by helping to found Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, one of the country's premier showcases for that most American of musical genres, and by promoting the career of the celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who co-founded the jazz center in 1991 and remains its artistic director; Mr. Crouch was a senior creative consultant for Ken Burns's 10-part documentary series, 'Jazz," broadcast in 2001) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 93071767 |
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