Community Arts in Watts and Leimert Park;
Modern Innovators: Selected Resources
Developed in support of Community Music Now! Event,
September 24, 2007
You can search HOMER and USC's Electronic Resources via USC's library page at
www.usc.edu/libraries for resources on key figures, including John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy,
Kamau Daáood, and Simon Rodia. In addition, selected resources include:
Caldwell, Ben. “KAOS at Ground Zero: Video, Teleconferencing and Community Networks.”
Leonardo 26, No. 5 (1993): 421-422. Available in JSTOR via USC’s Electronic Resources.
Cox, Christoph and Daniel Warner (eds.). Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. New York:
Continuum, 2004. Music, ML197.A85 2004.
Daáood, Kamau. The Language of Saxophones : Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood. San Francisco:
City Lights, 2005. Doheny, PS3604.A325L36 2005.
DJ Spooky. Rhythm Science. Cambridge, MA: Mediawork/MIT Press, 2004. Includes CD. Leavey
and Music, CB478.D5 2004.
Goldstone, Bud and Arloa Paquin Goldstone. The Los Angeles Watts Towers. Los Angeles: Getty
Conservation Institute, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Available in Architecture and Fine Arts
(AFA), Doheny, and Leavey, NA2930.G65 1997.
Grenier, Catherine (ed.). Los Angeles, 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital. Paris: Centre Pompidou:
Panama Musées, 2006. AFA, N6535.L6L767 2006.
Peterson, Lloyd (ed.). Music and the Creative Spirit: Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant
Garde. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Music, ML395.M87 2006.
Saunders, Eunice (editor in chief). Untitled. [Los Angeles]: Joined for the Arts in Watts, Inc., 1967.
Poetry. Special Collections, PS572.L6U55 1967.
Schrank, Sarah L. Art and the City: The Transformation of Civic Culture in Los Angeles, 1900-1965.
Ph.D. Thesis, University of California – San Diego, 2002. Doheny, N8845 L67 S37 2002a.
Includes a chapter on Watts.
Studio Watts (Periodical; quarterly). Studio Watts Workshop. Quarterly. Special Collections, PS1.S8.
Such, David. Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians: Performing "Out There." Iowa City: University of Iowa
Press, 1993. Music, ML3506.S93 1993.
Watts Writers Collection (archival material). Clippings and documents concerning the Watts Writers
Workshop (South Central Writers Workshop: Douglass House), founded in 1965 by novelist
Budd Schulberg following the Watts riots. Contributed by Workshop member Jimmie Sherman
(b. 1941) in 1993, the collection contains his "Reflections of a Nobody" (short story), "Ballad
from the Sixties" (play with music), and "The Workin' Machine" (ballad), as well as Sherman's
Community Arts in Watts and Leimert Park; Modern Innovators: Selected Resources
self-published language instruction materials. Special Collections-- Use of this collection is by
appointment only. Please contact: Claude Zachary, czachary@usc.edu; Phone: 213-740-2587.
Watts Writers' Workshop. From the Ashes; Voices of Watts. Edited and with an introduction by Budd
Schulberg. [New York]: New American Library, [1967]. Leavey, Special Collections, and
Grand, PS508.N3W33.
Whiteson, Leon. The Watts Towers. Photographs by Marvin Rand; [foreword by Tom Bradley].
Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1989. AFA and Doheny, NA2930.W48 1989.
Developed by Sue Tyson, styson@usc.edu