Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
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Author
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
782.42164 Smi
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782.42164 Smi
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Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-331) and index (pages 333-352).
Description
A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the American scene in the decades following World War II -- from Paul Robeson to Ed Sullivan, John Kennedy to Stokely Carmichael -- Belafonte established his place in American culture as a hugely popular singer, matinee idol, internationalist, and champion of civil rights, black pride, and black power. --Publisher's description.
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