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How it feels to be free : black women entertainers and the civil rights movement / Ruth Feldstein.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Description: 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195314038 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
- African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century
- African American women entertainers -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century
- Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Music -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- 323.1196 FEL 23
- E185.86 .F4342 2013
Contents:
Introduction: performing civil rights -- "The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures -- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings -- "No one asks me what I want": black women, Hollywood, and "integration narratives" in the late 1960s -- "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson and African American history in the 1970s -- Epilogue.
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National Law School | General Stacks | 323.1196 FEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | HB | Available | 37105 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-272) and index.
Introduction: performing civil rights -- "The world was on fire": making New York City subcultures -- "Africa's musical ambassador": Miriam Makeba and the "voice of Africa" in the United States -- "More than just a jazz performer": Nina Simone's border crossings -- "No one asks me what I want": black women, Hollywood, and "integration narratives" in the late 1960s -- "So beautiful in those rags": Cicely Tyson and African American history in the 1970s -- Epilogue.
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