Becoming Belafonte : : Black Artist, Public Radical / / Judith E. Smith.
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...
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Smith, Judith E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Becoming Belafonte : Black Artist, Public Radical / Judith E. Smith. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2014 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Discovering America Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. FROM HARLEM, JAMAICA, AND THE SEGREGATED NAVY TO NEW YORK CITY’S INTERRACIAL LEFT-WING CULTURE, 1927– 1948 -- 2. BLACK LEFT, WHITE STAGE, COLD WAR: Moving into the Spotlight, 1949– 1954 -- 3. MULTIMEDIA STARDOM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY, 1955– 1960 -- 4. STORMING THE GATES: Producing Film and Television, 1957– 1970 -- AFTERWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS FOR NOTES -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. In Becoming Belafonte, Judith E. Smith presents the first full-length interpretive study of this multitalented artist. She sets Belafonte’s compelling story within a history of American race relations, black theater and film history, McCarthy-era hysteria, and the challenges of introducing multifaceted black culture in a moment of expanding media possibilities and constrained political expression. Smith traces Belafonte’s roots in the radical politics of the 1940s, his careful negotiation of the complex challenges of the Cold War 1950s, and his full flowering as a civil rights advocate and internationally acclaimed performer in the 1960s. In Smith’s account, Belafonte emerges as a relentless activist, a questing intellectual, and a tireless organizer. From his first national successes as a singer of Calypso-inflected songs to the dedication he brought to producing challenging material on television and film regardless of its commercial potential, Belafonte stands as a singular figure in American cultural history—a performer who never shied away from the dangerous crossroads where art and politics meet. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Actors, Black United States Biography. African American civil rights workers Biography. Musicians, Black United States Biography. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110745337 https://doi.org/10.7560/729148 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292767331 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292767331/original |
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