Isoardi The Dark Tree

Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2741-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isoardi, Steven L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Steven L. Isoardi is an independent scholar; editor of Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott, also published by Duke University Press, and Jazz Generations: A Life in American Music and Society; and coeditor of Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. He is the author of The Music Finds a Way: A PAPA/UGMAA Oral History of Growing Up in Postwar South Central Los Angeles.