| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 436 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension Foundation, were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists-musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists-passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi draws on one hundred in-depth interviews with the Arkestra's participants to tell the history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles. This revised and updated edition brings the story of the Arkestra up to date, as its ethos and aesthetic remain vital forces in jazz and popular music to this day"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Jazz -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism
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African American jazz musicians -- California -- Los Angeles
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Artists and community -- California -- Los Angeles
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Jazz -- Social aspects
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MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
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African American jazz musicians
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Artists and community
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Jazz
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Jazz -- Social aspects
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California -- Los Angeles
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022061118 |
| ISBN |
9781478027416 |
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147802741X |
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