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9780520245914

Dark Tree Jazz And the Community Arts in Los Angeles

Dark Tree Jazz And the Community Arts in Los Angeles
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  • ISBN-13: 9780520245914
  • ISBN: 0520245911
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Publisher: University of California Press

AUTHOR

Isoardi, Steven L., Miranda, Roberto

SUMMARY

"Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."--Eric Porter, author of "What Is This Thing Called Jazz? "In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, 'This is one more you wrote through us.' And this is what Steve Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book--informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential--reads like no history book you've read before."--Chris Abani, author of "GraceLand and Becoming Abigail ""The Dark Tree is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well, and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty gritty nature of the music scene, and of resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book."--Robin Kelley, author of "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dotsof African American music on the west coast. Far more than a mere historical "overdub" of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians' accounts since Arthur Taylor's Notes and Tones."--Vijay Iyer, musician/composer, New York CityIsoardi, Steven L. is the author of 'Dark Tree Jazz And the Community Arts in Los Angeles', published 2006 under ISBN 9780520245914 and ISBN 0520245911.

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