Title: William Grant Still :
Authors: Still, Judith Anne.
Date: 2003
Publisher: Master-Player Library,
Physical description: xvii, 318 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: "A series of published and unpublished essays about the 'Dean of Afro-American composers, ' his racial attitudes and his artistic, spiritual and cultural beliefs, written by the composer's daughter."
Contents: Essays about the Composer -- Carrie Still Shepperson: The Hollows of Her Footsteps -- In My Father's House -- My Life as a Composer's Daughter -- From Composer to Composition: The Visionary Path -- "In the Beginning ... :" The Genesis of Ennanga -- William Grant Still: A Voice High-Sounding -- The "Little Life" of William Grant Still -- The Last Shall be First: The Crucifixion of the World's Famous Composers -- William Grant Still: Solving the Mystic Puzzle -- Turning Pages -- The Gleaming of a Random Light -- Essays about the Composer's Color and Culture -- Prejudice: An Acquired Deficiency -- Why Black Isn't Beautiful -- An Educational Approach to Negro Individualism -- For the Man Who Fails -- Restoring Paths to Dwell In.
Notes: "A series of published and unpublished essays about the 'Dean of Afro-American composers,' his racial attitudes and his artistic, spiritual and cultural beliefs, written by the composer's daughter."
Subject headings (LCSH): African American composers--Biography.; Composers--United States--Biography.; Still, William Grant, 1895-1978.