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9780520215436

William Grant Still

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520215436

  • ISBN10:

    0520215435

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

The most comprehensive work to date on William Grant Still, generally acknowledged as the most significant African American composer of art music.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
A Brief Chronologyp. 15
The Formative Years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911p. 21
"Dean of Afro-American Composers" or "Harlem Renaissance Man": The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Stillp. 39
Finding His Voice: William Grant Still in Los Angeles, An Unknown "New Negro"p. 94
The Afro-American Symphony and Its Scherzo "they, Verna and Billy"p. 152
"Harlem Renaissance Man" Revisited: The Politics of Race and Class in Still's Late Careerp. 182
Personal Notesp. 215
William Grant Still and Irving Schwerke: Documents from a Long-Distance Friendshipp. 235
William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictionsp. 274
Plan for a Biography of Stillp. 300
William Grant Stillp. 304
Major Sources on Stillp. 341
Note on Recordingsp. 345
Indexp. 349
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