The dark tree
Subtitle: jazz and the community arts in Los Angeles
By: Steven L. Isoardi ; with an appendix by Roberto Miranda.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780520245914
Subjects: Jazz -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism; African American jazz musicians -- California -- Los Angeles; Artists and community -- California -- Los Angeles; Jazz -- Social aspects
Notes: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-343) 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; title: Appendix : a view from the bottom : the music of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra / Roberto Miranda.; title: Contents on CD: Tell God all of my troubles; title: Carnival; title: Waltz time; title: Funeral; title: Eternal Egypt suite; title: Motherless child; title: Ballad for Deadwood Dick; title: Little Africa.