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Summary:Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life, The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles
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The dark tree: jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles
2006, University of California Press
in English
0520245911 9780520245914
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Table of 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 on CD: Tell God all of my troubles
Carnival
Waltz time
Funeral
Eternal Egypt suite
Motherless child
Ballad for Deadwood Dick
Little Africa.
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"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) and index.
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