William Grant Still : a study in contradictions /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
[2000]
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| Series: | Music of the African diaspora ;
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Table of 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 contraditcion / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; Plan for a biography of Still / Harold Bruce Forsythe ; William Grant Still / Verna Arvey
- Major sources on Still
- Note on recordings.