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Songs of the Unsung : The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott /

Songs of the Unsung also includes Tapscott's vivid descriptions of the Watts neighborhood insurrection of 1965 and the L.A. upheavals of 1992, his interactions with both the Black Panthers and the L.A.P.D., his involvement in Motown's West Coast scene, the growth of his musical reputation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tapscott, Horace (Autor)
Otros Autores: Isoardi, Steven Louis, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface -- 1 Early Years in Houston -- 2 California -- 3 Setting the Pace -- 4 Central Avenue -- 5 Military Service -- 6 On the Road with Lionel Hampton -- 7 To Preserve and Develop Black Culture -- 8 The Fire This Time -- 9 In the Middle of It -- 10 Stayin' Alive -- 11 The Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension -- 12 Settling into the Community -- 13 Movements to the Present -- 14 Reflections and Directions -- Postscript: From the Funeral Service -- Appendix: A Partial List of UGMAA Artists, 1961-1998 -- Discography 1: Horace Tapscott -- Discography 2: Music from the Ark. 
520 8 |a Songs of the Unsung also includes Tapscott's vivid descriptions of the Watts neighborhood insurrection of 1965 and the L.A. upheavals of 1992, his interactions with both the Black Panthers and the L.A.P.D., his involvement in Motown's West Coast scene, the growth of his musical reputation abroad, and stories about many of his musician-activist friends, including Billy Higgins, Don Cherry, Buddy Collette, Arthur Blythe, Lawrence and Wilber Morris, Linda Hill, Elaine Brown, Stanley Crouch, and Sun Ra."--Jacket 
520 8 |a Tapscott's narrative covers his early life in segregated Houston, his move to California in 1943, his life as a player in the Air Force band in the early fifties, and his travels with the Lionel Hampton Band. He reflects on how the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (the "Ark"), an organization he founded in 1961 to preserve and spread African and African American music, eventually became the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension - a group that not only performed musically but was active in the civil rights movement, youth education, and community programs 
520 1 |a "Songs of the Unsung is the autobiography of Los Angeles jazz musician and activist Horace Tapscott (1934-1999). A pianist who ardently believed in the power of music to connect people, Tapscott was a beloved and influential character who touched many yet has remained unknown to the majority of Americans. In addition to being "his" story, Songs of the Unsung is the story of Los Angeles's cultural and political evolution over the last half of the twentieth century, of the origins of many of the most important avant-garde musicians still on the scene today, and of a rich and varied body of music 
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