The dark tree
Subtitle: jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles
By: Steven L. Isoardi.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Jazz -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism.; African American jazz musicians -- California -- Los Angeles.; Artists and community -- California -- Los Angeles.; Jazz -- Social aspects.
Description: "While 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 group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz performance and training. Based primarily on one hundred in-depth interviews with current and former participants, The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestral echoes : roots of the African-American community artist; title: Ballad for Samuel : the legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s avant-garde in Los Angeles; title: Lino's pad : African-American Los Angeles and the formation of the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA); title: The giant is awakened : the Watts uprising and cultural resurgence; title: Warriors all : UGMA in the middle of it; title: The mothership : from UGMA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and UGMAA; title: To the great house : the Arkestra in the 1970s; title: Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam : the institutionalization of UGMAA; title: At the crossroads : the Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s; title: The hero's last dance : the '90s resurgence; title: Aiee! The phantom : Horace Tapscott; title: The black apostles : the Arkestra/UGMAA ethos and aesthetic : music, artists and community; title: Appendix : a view from the bottom : the music of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, by Roberto Miranda.