![]() In April, 2003, Jazz Times magazine, host to Crouch’s monthly column “Jazz Alone,” published “Putting the White Man in Charge,” a provocative essay covering topics familiar to Crouch readers, most notably his aggressive defense of the jazz idiom and its African American heritage. Depending on one’s outlook, his views on jazz, politics, and race often spark outrage, applause, or provoke debate. The fact that writer Stanley Crouch is willing to speak his mind has been known to readers of cultural criticism for three decades. Here, the noted art critic Clement Greenberg, famous for his unflagging promotion of abstract expressionism, studies a Kenneth Noland painting. ![]() The question of what constitutes art and where lies the cutting-edge of artistic expression has occupied critics for generations. ![]()
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