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William Grant Still : a study in contradictions /
During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the 'Dean of Afro-American Composers'. This book brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. It also provides a revealing window into our recent cultural pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Music of the African diaspora ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin
- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or "Harlem Renaissance man": the new Negro and the musical poetics of William Grant Still / Gayle Murchison
- Toward a biography. Finding his voice: William Grant Still in Los Angeles ; An unknown "new Negro" ; The Afro-American symphony and its scherzo ; "They, Verna and Billy" ; "Harlem Renaissance man" revisited: the politics of race and class in Still's late career
- Sources. Personal notes / William Grant Still ; William Grant Still and Irving Schwerké : documents from a long-distance friendship / edited by Wayne D. Shirley ; William Grant Still : a study in contradictions / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; Plan for a biography of Still / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; William Grant Still / Verna Arvey
- Major sources on Still
- Note on recordings.