William Grant Still
Subtitle: A Study in Contradictions (Music of the African Diaspora, 2)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780520215436
Subjects: 20th century music; Biography: film, television & music; Black studies; Composers & musicians; Cultural studies; History & Criticism - By Composer; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Biography / Autobiography; Still, William Grant,; Music; USA; History & Criticism - General; Individual Composer & Musician; People of Color; Music / General; Composers & Musicians - General; 1895-; 1895-1978; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Late in 1895 Carrie Fambro Still, a talented, well-educated, and strikingly handsome African American woman, left her home near Woodville, Mississippi, with her infant son headed for Little Rock, Arkansas.