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Beneath the Underdog
1971 autobiography by Charles Mingus
Hardcover edition | |
| Author | Charles Mingus |
|---|---|
| Original title | Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Alfred A.
Knopf |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 366 pp. |
| ISBN | 9780394436227 |
Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus is the autobiography of jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
It was first published in 1971, by Alfred A. Knopf.
Background
Mingus worked on his autobiography for more than two decades.[1] One newspaper indicated in October 1961 that the book "is due out in a couple of weeks".[2] The following year, The New York Times reported that author Louis Lomax was collaborating with Mingus in the writing and editing of "an eight-year-old, portly, angry manuscript of 1,500 pages", and that publishers in France and