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The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles
- Title
- The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles / Steven L. Isoardi ; with an appendix by Roberto Miranda.
- Author
- Isoardi, Steven L.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Request in advance | JME 06-547 [Book] | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | *LDC 26460 [CD] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
Details
- Description
- xxi, 356 p., [30] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm. +
- Subjects
- Note
- "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) and index.
- Contents
- Ancestral echoes : roots of the African-American community artist -- Ballad for Samuel : the legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s avant-garde in Los Angeles -- Lino's pad : African-American Los Angeles and the formation of the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA) -- The giant is awakened : the Watts uprising and cultural resurgence -- Warriors all : UGMA in the middle of it -- The mothership : from UGMA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and UGMAA -- To the great house : the Arkestra in the 1970s -- Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam : the institutionalization of UGMAA -- At the crossroads : the Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s -- The hero's last dance : the '90s resurgence -- Aiee! The phantom : Horace Tapscott -- The black apostles : the Arkestra/UGMAA ethos and aesthetic -- Appendix : a view from the bottom : the music of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra / Roberto Miranda.
- Contents on CD: Tell God all of my troubles -- Carnival -- Waltz time -- Funeral -- Eternal Egypt suite -- Motherless child -- Ballad for Deadwood Dick -- Little Africa.
- Call Number
- JME 06-547
- ISBN
- 0520245911 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005015753
- OCLC
- 60557545
- Author
- Isoardi, Steven L.
- Title
- The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles / Steven L. Isoardi ; with an appendix by Roberto Miranda.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JME 06-547 [Text]*LDC 26460 [CD]