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The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles
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- Creator
- Steven L. Isoardi ; with an appendix by Roberto Miranda
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 356 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9781598759365, 1282358847, 0520932242, 1423745493, 9780520245914, 9781282358843, 0520245911, 9781423745495, 9780520932241, 1598759361
- OCLC
- ocm60557545, ocm62865882
- "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-343) and index.
- 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