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Author: Catherine Parsons Smith
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.141kg
ISBN: 9780252087042
ISBN 10: 0252087046
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 12 July 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""This exemplary introduction to African American musician William Grant Still will appeal to both students and laypersons. . . . Recommended.""--Choice ""This book will be the standard work on William Grant Still for at least twenty years. Smith provides a brilliant narrative of Still's active career, his cooperation with Carl Van Vechten, and his prestige as an American composer. A useful introduction to Still's life, career, music, and sociological importance.""--Wayne D. Shirley, emeritus senior music specialist, Library of Congress ""A superb general reference to the life and career of William Grant Still. Smith does an excellent job of placing the composer within the context of African American life of his day. She is at her best in narrating Still's professional career in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles.""--Josephine Wright, editor of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern
This book will be the standard work on William Grant Still for at least twenty years. Smith provides a brilliant narrative of Still's active career, his cooperation with Carl Van Vechten, and his prestige as an American composer. A useful introduction to Still's life, career, music, and sociological importance. --Wayne D. Shirley, emeritus senior music specialist, Library of Congress This exemplary introduction to African American musician William Grant Still will appeal to both students and laypersons. . . . Recommended. --Choice A superb general reference to the life and career of William Grant Still. Smith does an excellent job of placing the composer within the context of African American life of his day. She is at her best in narrating Still's professional career in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. --Josephine Wright, editor of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern
This book will be the standard work on William Grant Still for at least twenty years. Smith provides a brilliant narrative of Still's active career, his cooperation with Carl Van Vechten, and his prestige as an American composer. A useful introduction to Still's life, career, music, and sociological importance. --Wayne D. Shirley, emeritus senior music specialist, Library of Congress A superb general reference to the life and career of William Grant Still. Smith does an excellent job of placing the composer within the context of African American life of his day. She is at her best in narrating Still's professional career in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. --Josephine Wright, editor of New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern This exemplary introduction to African American musician William Grant Still will appeal to both students and laypersons. . . . Recommended. --Choice
Author Information
Catherine Parsons Smith (1933-2009) was a professor emerita of music at the University of Nevada, Reno. She was the author of Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular and William Grant Still: A Study in Contradiction.
