Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
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Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical
（Discovering America series）
University of Texas Press, 2014
1st ed
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Harlem, Jamaica, and the Segregated Navy to New York City's Interracial Left-Wing Culture, 1927-1948
Chapter 2. Black Left, White Stage, Cold War: Moving into the Spotlight, 1949-1954
Chapter 3. Multimedia Stardom and the Struggle for Racial Equality, 1955-1960
Chapter 4. Storming the Gates: Producing Film and Television, 1957-1970
Afterword
Abbreviations for Notes
Notes
Index
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