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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

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

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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.

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