A Terry Teachout Reader

By: Terry Teachout

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Hardcover | 11 March 2004

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Terry Teachout's thought-provoking observations on everyone from Louis Armstrong to The Sopranos, and on everything from American opera to serials on TV. Terry Teachout, one of our most acute cultural commentators, here turns his sharp eye to every corner of the arts world--music, dance, literature, theater, film, TV, and the visual arts. This collection gathers the best of Teachout's writings from the past fifteen years. In each essay he offers lucid and balanced judgments that invariably illuminate, sometimes infuriate, and always spark a response--the mark of a critic whose thoughts, however controversial, cannot be ignored. In a thoughtful introduction to the book, Teachout considers how American culture of the twenty-first century differs from that of the last century and how the information age has altered popular culture. His selected essays chronicle America's cultural journey over the past decade and a half, and they show us what has been lost--and gained--along the way. With highly informed opinions, an inimitable wit and style, and a genuine devotion to all things cultural, Teachout offers his readers much to delight in and much to ponder.

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"Teachout is one of the finest critics on the scene today: tireless, gutsy, trenchant, never stale. His writings indicate a superb, highly developed and (in the best sense) discriminating taste." Martha Bayles, author of Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music"

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Introduction: Across the Great Divide	p. xiii
American Wayfarers
Far from Ohio: Dawn Powell	p. 3
Father Babbitt's Flock	p. 7
The Conversion of Tom Wolfe	p. 16
Merce Cunningham: Pale Horse, Pale Rider	p. 20
Notes Toward the Definition of Paul Taylor	p. 30
Stephen Sondheim's Unsettled Scores	p. 35
What Randolph Scott Knew	p. 47
That Wascally Pwofessor	p. 55
Louis Armstrong, Eminent Victorian	p. 58
Bill Monroe and His Discontents	p. 64
Citizen Sinatra	p. 68
Midcultists
Seven Hundred Pretty Good Books	p. 75
Sentimental Journey	p. 91
Norman Mailer: Forgotten but Not Gone	p. 95
Real Cool Killers	p. 99
Crosby Major, Crosby Minor	p. 102
That Nice Elvis Boy	p. 112
High Anxiety: Martha Graham	p. 116
Choreography	p. 124
How Good Was Leonard Bernstein?	p. 134
Brand-Name Opera	p. 147
The David Helfgott Show	p. 154
Classical Barbie	p. 162
Angelic Disorders	p. 167
The Land of No Context	p. 171
The Myth of "Classic" TV	p. 174
Battle of the Brows	p. 178
Good Night, David	p. 185
Down to the Crossroads
Inner Chambers	p. 193
The Great American Composer	p. 201
The Man Who Watched Bogart	p. 211
Scoundrel Time	p. 218
Cradle of Lies	p. 221
Willa Cather: No Way to Treat a Lady	p. 231
Another Sun Person Heard From	p. 235
The Color of Jazz	p. 244
(Over) praising Duke Ellington	p. 255
Sins of the Fathers	p. 263
The Anti-Victim: Arlene Croce	p. 267
Post-Postmodern
Life with Camille	p. 273
Tolstoy's Contraption	p. 277
Is That All There Is?	p. 281
Beasts and Superbeasts	p. 285
Whit Stillman, Class Clown	p. 289
Pictures of Words: John Sayles	p. 294
The Tilt-a-World of David Ives	p. 298
The New New Music	p. 303
Death of the Concert	p. 312
Life Without Records	p. 320
Three Roads to American Opera	p. 335
After Mr. B	p. 343
Going a Lot to the Mark Morris Dance Group	p. 354
At Full Blast	p. 361
Personals
The Importance of Being Less Earnest	p. 371
I've Got a Crush on You	p. 376
Elegy for the Woodchopper	p. 380
Close to Home	p. 394
My Friend Nancy	p. 398
About the Author	p. 409
Index	p. 411
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A Terry Teachout Reader

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