Steven L. Isoardi

The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this revised and updated edition of The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi tells the story of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group in Los Angeles that provided community-oriented jazz and jazz training for African American musicians, poets, playwrights, and artists for four decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Revised and Updated
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025283
• ISBN-10: 147802528X
• Artikelnr.: 67181645

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Isoardi

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition  ix
Acknowledgments  xv
1. Ancestral Echoes: Roots of the African American Community Artist  1
2. Ballad for Samuel: The Legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s
Avant-Garde in Los Angeles  19
3. Lino’s Pad: African American Los Angeles and the Formation of the
Underground Musicians Association (UGMA)  43
4. The Giant is Awakened: The Watts Uprising and Cultural Resurgence  69
5. Warriors All: UGMA in the Middle of It  117
6. The Mothership: From UGMA/UGMAA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Akrestra and
UGMAA  141
7. To the Great House: The Arkestra in the 1970s  179
8. Thoughts of Dar es Salaam: The Institutionalization of UGMAA  215
9. At the Crossroads: The Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s  259
10. The Hero’s Last Dance: The ’90s Resurgence  285
11. Aiee! The Phantom: Horace Tapscott  311
12. The Black Apostles: The Arkestra/UGMAA Ethos/Aesthetic: Music, Artists,
Community  341
Epilogue: The Post-Horace Pan African Peoples Arkestra  363
Appendix: A View from the Bottom: The Music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan
Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, by Roberto Miranda  369
Notes  379
Bibliography  407
Index  425