Harry Belafonte Race And The Politics Of Success
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Harry Belafonte Race And The Politics Of Success
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Author : Mark Hayward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Harry Belafonte Race And The Politics Of Success written by Mark Hayward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African American entertainers categories.
"The goal of this thesis is to examine the relationship between race, masculinity, and the politics of success as they relate to the figure of Harry Belafonte. During the 1950s and 1960s he was, by all accounts, a wildly successful performer and, due to his celebrity, avoided many of indignities which plagued the daily lives of most African Americans. Although this was typically taken as a sign of race's declining importance in American culture, the varied reaction to his success show that even 'success stories' of integration during this period were far from clear cut." --
Harry Belafonte Race And The Politics Of Success Microform
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Author : Mark Hayward
language : en
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Release Date : 2000
Harry Belafonte Race And The Politics Of Success Microform written by Mark Hayward and has been published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African American entertainers categories.
Lead Man Holler
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Author : Karen Beavers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Lead Man Holler written by Karen Beavers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African Americans in mass media categories.
My dissertation "Lead Man Holler: Harry Belafonte and the Culture Industry" looks at how Black Americans were able to represent a black aesthetic and politics in the music, film, and television industries of the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte 's position as a multimedia artist who was successful in using three branches of the mainstream media to communicate his particular aesthetic and political point of view offers a unique perspective on how each industry engaged with race and politics. I focus on Belafonte's career to explore larger questions including the following: Why were certain black performers popular? How did they act as screens for mainstream cultural desires while also expressing the particular points of view of subaltern people? Belafonte is not technically an immigrant because he was born in New York City, but I believe the five years he spent from age eight to twelve with his mother's family in Jamaica and his roots in Harlem's West Indian immigrant community are central to understanding his work. His television, music, and film work can be seen as a series of immigrant acts in the way that Lisa Lowe has defined them: "the politicized cultural work that emerges from dislocation and disidentification." For example, Belafonte's concert and television performance of spirituals recalled the subjugation blacks endured in slavery and his chain gang songs and work songs (including calypsos) highlighted the exploitation that continued and was even fostered under European imperialism and American democratic capitalism in the period of his stardom. Belafonte's work, while asserting a desire for full equality and integration into U.S. institutions, also manifests a longing for diasporic connections that can t be fulfilled by entrance into the nation state.
Hollywood Left And Right
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Author : Steven J. Ross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Hollywood Left And Right written by Steven J. Ross and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Political Science categories.
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters to the California governor's mansion, Steven J. Ross traces the intersection of Hollywood and political activism from the early twentieth century to the present. Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross shows in this passionate and entertaining work, is far more complicated. First, Hollywood has a longer history of conservatism than liberalism. Second, and most surprising, while the Hollywood Left was usually more vocal and visible, the Right had a greater impact on American political life, capturing a senate seat (Murphy), a governorship (Schwarzenegger), and the ultimate achievement, the Presidency (Reagan).
How To Do Politics With Art
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Author : Violaine Roussel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-10-26
How To Do Politics With Art written by Violaine Roussel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-26 with Social Science categories.
A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a question of aesthetics—whether politics necessarily pollutes and debases the quality of the arts. From the perspective of social science, it has been primarily a question of meaning—how political messages are conveyed through artistic media. Recent work has begun to broaden the study of the arts and politics beyond semiosis and content focus. Several strands of scholarship are converging around the general issue of the social relationships within which art takes political form, that is, how art and artists do politics. This perspective of "doing" moves analysis beyond addressing the meaning of culture, to focus on the ways that art is embedded in—and intervenes in—social relationships, activities, and institutions. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from France and the United States to investigate these directions and themes by exploring the question of "how to do politics with art" from a comparative standpoint, putting sociological approaches in conversation with other disciplinary prisms. It will be of interest to scholars of social movements and politicization, the sociology of art, art history, and aesthetics.
Wake Up Mr West
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Author : Joshua K. Wright
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-01-14
Wake Up Mr West written by Joshua K. Wright and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Music categories.
Black celebrities in America have always walked a precarious line between their perceived status as spokespersons for their race and their own individual success--and between being "not black enough" for the black community or "too black" to appeal to a broader audience. Few know this tightrope walk better than Kanye West, who transformed hip-hop, pop and gospel music, redefined fashion, married the world's biggest reality TV star and ran for president, all while becoming one of only a handful of black billionaires worldwide. Despite these accomplishments, his polarizing behavior, controversial alliances and bouts with mental illness have made him a caricature in the media and a disappointment among much of his fanbase. This book examines West's story and what it reveals about black celebrity and identity and the American dream.
My Song
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Author : Harry Belafonte
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2012-05-17
My Song written by Harry Belafonte and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memory. Along the way, he befriended some of the most influential figures of the 20th century, from Tony Curtis, Marlon Brando and Sidney Poitier to Martin Luther King, the Kennedys, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fidel Castro, James Baldwin, Bob Dylan and Nelson Mandela. From his impoverished childhood in Harlem and Jamaica, through his meteoric rise as an international calypso star, provocative crossover into Hollywood where he broke down many racial barriers, passionate lifelong involvement in the civil rights movement and myriad other social causes, to his personal struggles and rich friendships, this is a remarkable, multifaceted and hugely inspirational story. "A man whose story should be told for generations to come" (Robert Redford)
Left Of The Color Line
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Author : Bill V. Mullen
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Left Of The Color Line written by Bill V. Mullen and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American, Chicano/Chicana, and Asian American literature and culture. By placing the Left at the center of their examination, the authors reposition the interpretive framework of American cultural studies. Tracing the development of the Left over the course of the last century, the essays connect the Old Left of the pre-World War II era to the New Left and Third World nationalist Left of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the multicultural Left that has emerged since the 1970s. Individual essays explore the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T. S. Eliot, Chester Himes, Harry Belafonte, Americo Paredes, and Alice Childress. The collection also reconsiders the role of the Left in such critical cultural and historical moments as the Harlem Renaissance, the Cold War, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors are Anthony Dawahare, Barbara Foley, Marcial Gonzalez, Fred Ho, William J. Maxwell, Bill V. Mullen, Cary Nelson, B. V. Olguin, Rachel Rubin, Eric Schocket, James Smethurst, Michelle Stephens, Alan Wald, and Mary Helen Washington.
Black Celebrity Racial Politics And The Press
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Author : Sarah J. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-23
Black Celebrity Racial Politics And The Press written by Sarah J. Jackson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and their reception in the public sphere. This book focuses on the way the mainstream and black press have covered cases of controversial political dissent by African American celebrities from Paul Robeson to Kanye West. Jackson considers the following questions: 1) What unique agency is available to celebrities with racialized identities to present critiques of American culture? 2) How have journalists in both the mainstream and black press limited or facilitated this agency through framing? What does this say about the varying role of journalism in American racial politics? 3) How have framing trends regarding these figures shifted from the mid-twentieth century to the twenty-first century? Through a series of case studies that also includes Eartha Kitt, Sister Souljah, and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Jackson illustrates the shifting public narratives and historical moments that both limit and enable African American celebrities in the wake of making public politicized statements that critique the accepted racial, economic, and military systems in the United States.
Just My Soul Responding
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Author : Brian Ward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Just My Soul Responding written by Brian Ward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with History categories.
Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.