BAG: "Point from which creation begins" : the Black Artists' Group of St. Louis / Benjamin Looker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Looker, Benjamin, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American musicians.

Jazz--Social aspects.

Jazz.

Missouri--Saint Louis.

Black Artists' Group.

Jazz--Missouri--Saint Louis--History and criticism.

Jazz--Social aspects--Missouri--Saint Louis.

African American musicians--Missouri--Saint Louis.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Shaw, Gwendolyn Dubois, 1968- (donor)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Distribution:

[Columbia, Missouri] : Distributed by University of Missouri Press.

Other Title:

"Point from which creation begins"

Black Artists' Group of St. Louis

Place of Publication:

St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society Press, [2004]

Summary:

"From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experimentalists working in theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz." "This book narrates the group's development against the backdrop of St. Louis spaces and institutions, examines work by its major artists, and follows the collective's musicians in their eventual move to Paris and on to New York, where they played a leading role in Lower Manhattan's "loft jazz" scene of the 1970s."--Jacket.

Contents:

A city built to music : St. Louis foundations

Double vision : Black arts and urban reform

Poets of action : the arts and the local village

A singular expression : BAG's multimedia continuum

Creative adaptation : new sounds, new institutions

Points of departure : European interludes

Going out live : BAG and the New York loft scene.

Notes:

Includes discography (pages 255-260), bibliographical references (pages 308-311), and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw.

ISBN:

1883982510

9781883982515

9791883982514

OCLC:

55960856