William Grant Still a study in contradictions
Smith Catherine Parsons2000
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Total copies: 1
Subject: Biography of William Grant Still, a major African American composer in the 1920s, 30s and 40s whose work culminated in an opera which he co-wrote with Langston Hughes. Still sought to blur many boundaries in music, blending the popular and higher art forms and African and european musical conventions. Traces his life as he later sank into obscurity, and how the forces of race and class affected him. With essays by Gayle Murchison and William Gatewood and contemporary sources from the 1930s.
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Imprint:
US 2000 University of California Press
Collation:
368p
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ISBN:
0520215435
Dewey class:
AR.8.03SMI
Local class:
AR.8.03/SMI
Language:
English
BRN:
1836118