Research Catalog

Title

Quincy Troupe audio and moving image collection : 881 items.

Author

Troupe, Quincy

Publication

[1998]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

• 656 audiocassettes
• 225 videocassettes

Summary

The collection consists of 656 audio recordings, and 225 moving image recordings, reflecting Troupe's career as a poet and author from the 1970s to 2008.

Subjects

• Video recordings
• Sound recordings
• Jazz
• Black Arts movement
• African Americans > Poetry
• African Americans > Music
• African American musicians
• African American journalists
• African American athletes
• African American artists
• Troupe, Quincy

Genre/Form

• Sound recordings.
• Video recordings.

Note

• Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (born July 22, 1939 is an American poet, author, editor, journalist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. He is best known as the biographer of Miles Davis, the jazz musician. Troupe became known first for his poetry. He was a member of the Watts Writers Workshop in Los Angeles, which formed in response to the Watts riots of 1965, and he edited Watts Poets – A Book of New Poetry and Essays (1968). His published collections of poetry include The Architecture of Language (2006), Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems (2002), Choruses (1999), Avalanche (1996), Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems (1991), Skulls Along the River (1984), Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems, 1969-1977 (1979), which received an American Book Award, and Embryo Poems, 1967-1971 (1974). Troupe is also a highly-regarded performer of his poetry. He was featured on the Bill Moyers series The Power of the Word on PBS in 1989. Miles: The Autobiography received an American Book Award in 1990. Troupe's other prose books include Miles and Me: A Memoir of Miles Davis (2000), The Pursuit of Happyness (with Chris Gardner, 2006), and Earl the Pearl: My Story (with Earl Monroe, 2013). He also co-produced The Miles Davis Radio Project (1989-1991), a public radio series; and wrote Thelonious Monk: American Composer (1991), a television documentary. Troupe prepared multiple drafts of a screenplay for Miles and Me. The film was in development for several years, but was never produced. Troupe edited the anthologies James Baldwin: The Legacy (1989) and Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing (1975); served as senior editor of the journal River Styx; and is a founding editor of Confrontation: A Journal of Third World Literature, Black Renaissance Noir, and American Rag. He was the founding editorial director of Code magazine (1999-2000), and was involved in the early stages of Advance magazine in the mid-1980s, which eventually became Emerge. Troupe has also written freelance articles for many magazines, including Spin and Elle, and he was editor-at-large for The Green Magazine. In 1991, Troupe received the Peabody Award for The Miles Davis Radio Project. His other honors include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987); an American Book Award for lifetime achievement (2010); and the Milt Kessler Award for Poetry (2003). In 2002, Troupe was named Poet Laureate of the State of California, a post from which he was forced to resign after a background check revealed he had lied on his resume. From the mid-1970s until 2003, he taught creative writing at the College of Staten Island, Columbia University, and the University of California, San Diego, and he continues to teach writing workshops for children and adults. Troupe lives with his wife, Margaret Porter Troupe, in Harlem, New York.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Quincy Troupe archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 635)

Call Number

Sc MIRS Troupe 1998-21

OCLC

1199217636

Author

Troupe, Quincy, creator.

Title

Quincy Troupe audio and moving image collection : 881 items.

Publisher

[1998]

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Quincy Troupe archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. (Sc MG 635)

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Added Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Troupe 1998-21