The pleasures of being out of step [videorecording] : notes on the life of Nat Hentoff / Wishing Well Productions presents ; produced and directed by David L. Lewis.
Originally produced in 2013. Features conversations with Hentoff, plus additional interviews with Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Floyd Abrams, Aryeh Heier, and Dan Morgenstern. Includes music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Bob Dylan, along with never-before-seen photographs and archival footage of these musicians and other cultural figures. Special features: How Max came to Candid ; Critic to fan ; WWII ; The New Yorker. Narrator, Andre Braugher. Floyd Abrams, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch, Dan Morgenstern, Karen Durbin,
Contents:
The Village voice -- The jazz gene -- Liner notes -- Civil liberties -- Club kid -- Down beat -- College lessons -- The most important job -- Bob Dylan -- Hippies, feminists, and queers -- Married life -- Greenwich Village -- Lenny Bruce -- Candid -- We insist! -- Moldy figs -- Malcolm X -- Best jazz magazine ever -- The eighties generation -- The sound of jazz -- Family history -- Abortion -- Mingus music -- End of an era -- Are you still here?
Summary:
Nat Hentoff is one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and who also led the rise of 'alternative' journalism in America. This unique documentary wraps the themes of liberty, identity and free expression around a historical narrative that stretches from the Great Depression to the Patriot Act.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.