2023, ISBN: 9780520391802

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: University of California Press], "Dancing Down the Barricades reintroduces readers to Sammy Davis Jr., showing how he fashioned his world-renowned star performances i… Mehr…

[ED: Gebunden], [PU: University of California Press], "Dancing Down the Barricades reintroduces readers to Sammy Davis Jr., showing how he fashioned his world-renowned star performances in dance, music, stage drama, film, and television within complex and painfully exclusionary racially defined circumstances not of his own making. Matthew Frye Jacobson brilliantly illuminates the shape-shifting meanings of Davis's multiple performance strategies over the course of the 'long civil rights era, ' from the desegregation 1940s to the Black Power 1970s. Davis deployed his extraordinary talents as a weapon, in tandem with his contradictory public stances--from 'donating' celebrity support to Martin Luther King Jr.'s hard-fought campaigns to standing with Richard Nixon at the 1972 Republican National Convention. This is twentieth-century cultural history of the highest order."--Judith E. Smith, author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical "With Dancing Down the Barricades, Jacobson, one of our most astute historians, provides an..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 363, [GW: 606g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

2007, ISBN: 9780520391802

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[ED: Buch], [PU: University of California Press], Neuware - 'Dancing Down the Barricades reintroduces readers to Sammy Davis Jr., showing how he fashioned his world-renowned star performances in dance, music, stage drama, film, and television within complex and painfully exclusionary racially defined circumstances not of his own making. Matthew Frye Jacobson brilliantly illuminates the shape-shifting meanings of Davis's multiple performance strategies over the course of the 'long civil rights era, ' from the desegregation 1940s to the Black Power 1970s. Davis deployed his extraordinary talents as a weapon, in tandem with his contradictory public stances--from 'donating' celebrity support to Martin Luther King Jr.'s hard-fought campaigns to standing with Richard Nixon at the 1972 Republican National Convention. This is twentieth-century cultural history of the highest order.'--Judith E. Smith, author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 236x161x29 mm, 344, [GW: 606g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

2023, ISBN: 9780520391802

University of California Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: First Edition, a Cultural History ed. 314 Seiten, Publiziert: 2023-02-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.3 kg, Afroamerikanis… Mehr…

University of California Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: First Edition, a Cultural History ed. 314 Seiten, Publiziert: 2023-02-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.3 kg, Afroamerikanische Studien, Afrikaner & afrikanischer Abstammung, Ethnographie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Biografien & Erinnerungen, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, University of California Press, 2023<

ISBN: 9780520391802

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