Lead Man Holler
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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.
Constructing Black Selves
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Author : Lisa Diane McGill
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2005-11-01
Constructing Black Selves written by Lisa Diane McGill and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with Social Science categories.
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics? As black immigrants, to which America do they assimilate? Constructing Black Selves explores the cultural production of second-generation Caribbean immigrants in the United States after World War II as a prism for understanding the formation of Caribbean American identity. Lisa D. McGill pays particular attention to music, literature, and film, centering her study around the figures of singer-actor Harry Belafonte, writers Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Piri Thomas, and meringue-hip-hop group Proyecto Uno. Illuminating the ways in which Caribbean identity has been transformed by mass migration to urban landscapes, as well as the dynamic and sometimes conflicted relationship between Caribbean American and African American cultural politics, Constructing Black Selves is an important contribution to studies of twentieth century U.S. immigration, African American and Afro-Caribbean history and literature, and theories of ethnicity and race.
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).
Impresario
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Author : James Maguire
language : en
Publisher: Billboard Books
Release Date : 2011-11-23
Impresario written by James Maguire and has been published by Billboard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
• Sullivan has nearly 100% name recognition among people 40 and older • In a survey of the fifty most influential programs in the U.S., TV Guide ranked The Ed Sullivan Show #10 • Show still appears on PBS and on cable stations across the country • Sixty million baby boomers grew up watching The Ed Sullivan Show For more than twenty years, from 1948 to 1971, fifty-five million viewers watched The Ed Sullivan Show religiously every Sunday night. Everyone who was anyone appeared—the Beatles and Elvis, of course, and Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, and Elizabeth Taylor, plus public figures such as Fidel Castro, David Ben-Gurion, and Martin Luther King, Jr. More than thirty years later, the program remains a pop-culture icon. But despite Ed Sullivan’s prominence, little was known about the private man...until now. Impresario reveals what the Sullivan viewers never saw: nasty, hot-tempered, craven, yet also capable of high ideals and, above all, hugely ambitious. At a time when Americans are looking back, The Ed Sullivan Show stands out as a shining example of television during the golden era. Impresario lets readers look behind the screen to see the man who made it happen.
Bluesman
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Author : Fred Steen
language : en
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim
Release Date : 1998
Bluesman written by Fred Steen and has been published by Janus Publishing Company Lim this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Based on the true-to-life experiences of the author growing up on the cotton plantations in Mississippi, this is the story of a young man whose dream was to play, sing and preach the blues.
Becoming Belafonte
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Author : Judith E. Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
Becoming Belafonte written by Judith E. Smith and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
Boys Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958-04
Boys Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958-04 with categories.
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
The Song Index Of The Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Author : Ellen Luchinsky
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-23
The Song Index Of The Enoch Pratt Free Library written by Ellen Luchinsky and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-23 with Music categories.
The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.
Barbados
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Author : Bethany Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Barbados written by Bethany Bryan and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Barbados, a small island in the Caribbean, has a rich and vibrant culture influenced by the almost 350 years it spent as a colony of England and by its West African roots stemming from the slave trade. Once dominated by the sugarcane industry and the white-owned plantations that supported it, today Barbados is a popular tourist destination and a hub for manufacturing. Barbadians, or Bajans as they refer to themselves, take pride in their home, even long after they move away. This book explores the sometimes murky history of this country, its fight for independence from England, how it continues to struggle against economic setbacks today, and the incredible music, food, festivals, sports, and landmarks that make Barbados unique.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Catalog Of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Music categories.