The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles

The dark tree : jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles / Steven L. Isoardi ; with an appendix by Roberto Miranda.

Author/creator	Isoardi, Steven Louis, 1949-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.
Description	xxi, 356 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Jazz--California --Los Angeles --History and criticism. African American jazz musicians--California --Los Angeles. Artists and community--California --Los Angeles. Jazz--Social aspects.

Contents	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	Contents on CD: Tell God all of my troubles -- Carnival -- Waltz time -- Funeral -- Eternal Egypt suite -- Motherless child -- Ballad for Deadwood Dick -- Little Africa.
Local note	Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER CD-9149.
General note	"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) and index.
LCCN	2005015753
ISBN	0520245911 (cloth : alk. paper)

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