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Informationen zum Autor Catherine Parsons Smith is Professor of Music at the University of Nevada! Reno! and coauthor! with C. S. Richardson! of Mary Carr Moore! American Composer (1987). Klappentext "A tough mixture of courage and diplomacy! the material presented here could hardly be richer."-Susan McClary! author of Feminine Endings Zusammenfassung During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers". He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood. This text brings William Grant Still out of the archives and examines his place in America's musical heritage. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 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 Schwerke: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 Index Contents
