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Description: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, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. 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. Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life, this engrossing book completes the account began in the highly acclaimed "Central Avenue Sounds," which documented the secular music history of the first half of the twentieth century and which the "San Francisco Examiner "called "one of the best jazz books ever compiled."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles. To get started finding The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 377

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: 2006

ISBN: 0520932242

Description: 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, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. 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. Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life, this engrossing book completes the account began in the highly acclaimed "Central Avenue Sounds," which documented the secular music history of the first half of the twentieth century and which the "San Francisco Examiner "called "one of the best jazz books ever compiled."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles. To get started finding The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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