The Dark Tree [electronic resource] : Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles /
Isoardi, Steven Louis,1949-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c2006.
While he was still in his twenties, 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 affordable, 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 (UGMAA) Foundation, were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists-musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, paint
While he was still in his twenties, 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 affordable, 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 (UGMAA) Foundation, were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists-musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, paint
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) and index.
Contents on CD: Tell God all of my troubles -- Carnival -- Waltz time -- Funeral -- Eternal Egypt suite -- Motherless child -- Ballad for Deadwood Dick -- Little Africa.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Jazz
Artists and community
African American jazz musicians
Jazz