"Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."- ...
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"Isoardi has done a wonderful job collecting oral histories and integrating them into an engaging, sophisticated, and highly readable book. He provides great insight into the artistic goals, political aspirations, internal conflicts, and social terrain that shaped the experiences of the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. He shows us quite clearly that jazz musicians continued to work within and gain sustenance from working class black communities long after the moment when some observers deemed the music irrelevant to them."--Eric Porter, author of "What Is This Thing Called Jazz?" "In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, 'This is one more you wrote through us.' And this is what Steve 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" and "Becoming Abigail" ""The Dark Tree" 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 of resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book."--Robin Kelley, author of "Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination" "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 Notes and Tones."--Vijay Iyer, musician/composer, New York City
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Add this copy of The Dark Tree – Jazz and the Community Arts in Los to cart. $78.32, like new condition, Sold by Denton Island Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newhaven, CHOOSE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2006 by University of California Press.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. CD included. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, bump to lower corner of rear board; clean bright jacket with minor creasing. Based primarily on one hundred in-depth interviews with current and former participants, "The Dark Tree" is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles. 408 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Music; ISBN/EAN: 9780520245914. Inventory No: dscf11851.
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Good jacket. Signed. First Edition. A very good first edition hardcover clothbound in gray boards in a good dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Steven Isoardi on title page: "To Roberta: Hope this moves you. There is some Lindsay/Rossi passion in here." Gently read, if at all. No markings. Light shelfwear and edgewear to dust jacket.
Add this copy of The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los to cart. $140.00, very good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by University of California Press.
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Very good jacket. Signed. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED by Steven L. Isoardi on title page: "Bright moments! Horace lives! " No markings.
Add this copy of The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los to cart. $185.81, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by University of California Press.