The Afro-American Symphony and Its Scherzo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Acknowledgments XIII
5. Abbreviations XVII
6. Introduction. A Brief Chronology 1
7. CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS
8. The Formative Years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 21
9. "Dean of Afro-American Composers" or "Harlem Renaissance Man": The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still 39
10. TOWARD A BIOGRAPHY
11. Finding His Voice: William Grant Still in Los Angeles 69
12. An Unknown "New Negro" 94
13. The Afro-American Symphony and Its Scherzo 114
14. "they, Verna and Billy" 152
15. "Harlem Renaissance Man" Revisited: The Politics of Race and Class in Still's Late Career 182
16. SOURCES
17. Personal Notes 215
18. William Grant Still and Irving Schwerké: Documents from a Long-Distance Friendship 235
19. William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions 274
20. Plan for a Biography of Still 300
21. William Grant Still 304
22. Major Sources on Still 341
23. Note on Recordings 345
24. Index 349