Always in Pursuit by Crouch, Stanley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover 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

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

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