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Author Smith, Judith E., 1948- author.

Title Becoming Belafonte : black artist, public radical / by Judith E. Smith
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Discovering America
Discovering America series.
Contents From Harlem, Jamaica, and the segregated navy to New York City's interracial left-wing culture, 1927/1948 -- Black left, white stage, Cold War : moving into the spotlight, 1949/1954 -- Multimedia stardom and the struggle for racial equality, 1955/1960 -- Storming the gates : producing film and television, 1957/1970
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
SUBJECT Belafonte, Harry, 1927- fast
Subject African American civil rights workers -- Biography
Musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography
Actors, Black -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Actors, Black
African American civil rights workers
Musicians, Black
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780292767331
0292767331