My Song - A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance

Informationen zum Autor Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson Klappentext Harry Belafonte's 1956 album Calypso made him the first artist in history to sell more than one million LPs. He has won both a Tony award and an Emmy, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. He has served a a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for excellence in the performing arts. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Pamela. Michael Shnayerson is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Electrifying memoir by singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte Zusammenfassung 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)

Product details

• Authors: Belafont, Harr Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, Schnayerson, Michael Schnayerson, Michael Shnayerson
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.05.2012
• EAN: 9780857865861
• ISBN: 978-0-85786-586-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 216 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, Folk & traditional music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Composers and songwriters, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Civics and citizenship, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music