William Grant Still |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
ABBREVIATIONS |
INTRODUCTION |
CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS |
• | The Formative Years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895–1911 |
"Dean of Afro-American Composers" or "Harlem Renaissance Man": The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still |
TOWARD A BIOGRAPHY |
• | Finding His Voice: William Grant Still in Los Angeles |
• | An Unknown "New Negro" |
• | The Afro-American Symphony and Its Scherzo |
"They, Verna and Billy" |
• | "Harlem Renaissance Man" Revisited: The Politics of Race and Class in Still's Late Career |
SOURCES |
Personal Notes |
• | William Grant Still and Irving Schwerké: Documents from a Long-Distance Friendship |
• | William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions |
• | Plan for a Biography of Still |
William Grant Still |
Notes |
MAJOR SOURCES ON STILL |
NOTE ON RECORDINGS |
INDEX |