The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles
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Abstract
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, this book is a history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles. The book completes the account begun in Central Avenue Sounds, which documented the secular music history of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ancestral Echoes: Roots of the African American Community Artist
Steven L. Isoardi
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Ballad for Samuel: The Legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s Avant-Garde in Los Angeles
Steven L. Isoardi
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Lino's Pad: African American Los Angeles and the Formation of the Underground Musicians Association
Steven L. Isoardi
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The Giant is Awakened: The watts uprising and cultural resurgence
Steven L. Isoardi
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Warriors All: UGMA in the Middle of It
Steven L. Isoardi
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The Mothership: From UGMA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and UGMAA
Steven L. Isoardi
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To The Great House: The Arkestra in the 1970s
Steven L. Isoardi
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Thoughts of Dar Es Salaam: The Institutionalization of UGMAAQ
Steven L. Isoardi
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At the Crossroads: The Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s
Steven L. Isoardi
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The Hero's Last Dance: The ′90s Resurgence
Steven L. Isoardi
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Aiee! The Phantom: Horace Tapscott
Steven L. Isoardi
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The Black Apostles: The Arkestra/UGMAA Ethos and Aesthetic
Steven L. Isoardi
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