{"product_id":"the-dark-tree-9781478025283","title":"The Dark Tree","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this revised and updated edition of The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi tells the story of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group in Los Angeles that provided community-oriented jazz and jazz training for African American musicians, poets, playwrights, and artists for four decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Dark Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of Black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty-gritty nature of the music scene and resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dots of African American music on the West Coast. Far more than a mere historical ‘overdub’ of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians’ accounts since Arthur Taylor’s \u003ci\u003eNotes and Tones\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Vijay Iyer, musician and composer\u003cbr\u003e“In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, ‘This is one more you wrote through us.’ And this is what Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail, and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book—informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential—reads like no history book you’ve read before.” -- Chris Abani, author of GraceLand\u003cbr\u003e\"An impressively constructed tapestry of voices, it includes memories and opinions from myriad people while maintaining a strong narrative thread through lsoardi's authoritative voice. . . . lsoardi's interviews with dozens of members—not one of whom declined to participate—recover a wealth of information crucial to the history of Los Angeles jazz. In the process, he has made \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Tree\u003c\/i\u003e a truly collaborative project that itself shares in the communal spirit of the UGMAA.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Matthew Blackwell * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ancestral Echoes: Roots of the African American Community Artist  1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ballad for Samuel: The Legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s Avant-Garde in Los Angeles  19\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lino’s Pad: African American Los Angeles and the Formation of the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA)  43\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Giant is Awakened: The Watts Uprising and Cultural Resurgence  69\u003cbr\u003e 5. Warriors All: UGMA in the Middle of It  117\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Mothership: From UGMA\/UGMAA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Akrestra and UGMAA  141\u003cbr\u003e 7. To the Great House: The Arkestra in the 1970s  179\u003cbr\u003e 8. Thoughts of Dar es Salaam: The Institutionalization of UGMAA  215\u003cbr\u003e 9. At the Crossroads: The Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s  259\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Hero’s Last Dance: The ’90s Resurgence  285\u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003ci\u003eAiee! The Phantom\u003c\/i\u003e: Horace Tapscott  311\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Black Apostles: The Arkestra\/UGMAA Ethos\/Aesthetic: Music, Artists, Community  341\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Post-Horace Pan African Peoples Arkestra  363\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A View from the Bottom: The Music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, by Roberto Miranda  369\u003cbr\u003e Notes  379\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  407\u003cbr\u003e Index  425","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017577815,"sku":"9781478025283","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025283.jpg?v=1730505111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dark-tree-9781478025283","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}