How It Feels to Be Free
Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement
Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book AwardWinnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and HistoryIn 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a show tune. Then she began to sing: Alabama's got me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam! Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers.In How It Feels to Be Free, Ruth Feldstein examines celebrated black women performers, illuminating the risks they took, their rol…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-971827-6
- EAN: 9780199718276
- Produktnummer: 16977676
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'692 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 illus.
Über den Autor
Ruth Feldstein is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965.
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