on 4/5/03 11:43 AM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
In a way, after all, his views are a variation of what appeared in LeRoi Jones's (sic) downbeat columns of the 1960s, which exposed the same sort of "four legs good, two legs bad" POV. Baraka was right part of the time, but very wrong other times, just ask Burton Greene.
And when you go back and read Jones' columns, you realize that he and Crouch are cut from the same stupidity. I remember reading the book that collected his column -- BLACK MUSIC -- in high school, and being amazed at how completely unreasonable his predictions were, as well as how ignorant he could be (his dismissals of Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, and Wayne Shorter are right up there with that guy who told Brian Epstein that guitar bands were on their way out). If you ever need an indication of how damaging to unformed minds bad critical analysis can be, he's the guy to read. The work of a man who truly belonged on the OJ jury. sh np: sun ra -- the nubians at plutonia