| Description |
xvi, 368 pages : illustration, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music of the African diaspora ; 2
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Music of the African diaspora ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index. |
| Contents |
A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin -- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or "Harlem Renaissance man": the new Negro and the musical poetics of William Grant Still / Gayle Murchison -- Toward a biography. Finding his voice: William Grant Still in Los Angeles ; An unknown "new Negro" ; The Afro-American symphony and its scherzo ; "they, Verna and Billy" ; "Harlem Renaissance man" revisited: the politics of race and class in Still's late career -- Sources. Personal notes / William Grant Still ; William Grant Still and Irving Schwerké: documents from a long-distance friendship / edited by Wayne D. Shirley ; William Grant Still: a study in contradictions / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; Plan for a biography of Still / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; William Grant Still / Verna Arvey -- Major sources on Still -- Note on recordings. |
| Subject |
Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Still, William Grant, 1895-1978. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| ISBN |
0520215427 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520215435 paperback alkaline paper |
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