The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles /
"In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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Edición: | Revised and updated. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- "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/UGMAA 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/eesthetic : music, artists, and community
- Epilogue: The post-Horace Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra
- Appendix: A view from the bottom : the music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra / by Roberto Miranda.