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William Grant Still :

Smith, Catherine Parsons, 1933-2009.

William Grant Still : a study in contradictions / Catherine Parsons Smith ; with contributed essays by Gayle Murchison and Willard B. Gatewood, chronology by Carolyn L. Quin, and contemporary sources from the 1930s, Verna Arvey [and others]. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations - Music of the African diaspora ; 2 . - Music of the African diaspora ; 2. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index.

A brief chronology / The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / "Dean of Afro-American composers" or "Harlem Renaissance man": the new Negro and the musical poetics of William Grant Still / 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 -- Personal notes / William Grant Still and Irving Schwerk�e : documents from a long-distance friendship / William Grant Still : a study in contradictions / Plan for a biography of Still / Carolyn L. Quin -- Willard B. Gatewood ; Gayle Murchison -- William Grant Still ; edited by Wayne D. Shirley ; Harold Bruce Forsythe ; Harold Bruce Forsythe ; William Grant Still / Verna Arvey -- Contributed essays. Toward a biography. Sources. Major sources on Still -- Note on recordings.

During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the 'Dean of Afro-American Composers'. This book brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. It also provides a revealing window into our recent cultural past.


English.

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Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 --Criticism and interpretation.
Still, William Grant, 1895-1978.
Still, William Grant.


MUSIC--Individual Composer & Musician.
Aufsatzsammlung


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

ML410.S855 / S65 2000eb

780/.92