Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an African-American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome?
Crouch was fired from JazzTimes following his controversial article “Putting the White Man in Charge”, in which he asserted that white critics elevate white jazz musicians beyond their abilities.
Crouch was invited to a panel of judges for the PEN/Newman’s Own Award, a $25,000 award designed to protect speech as it applies to the written word.
In 2005, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows by the Fletcher Foundation, which awards annual fellowships to people working on issues of race and civil rights. The fellowship program is directed by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard University.
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