Contatto
Come acquistare
Consegna
Guida all'acquisto
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power
Inglese
395 b
Nuovi
On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march. Though luminaries like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahalia Jackson, and Dick Gregory were in attendance, it was Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance, who was the singers closest confidant and supporter. They had one of the most importantyet unheraldedfriendships of the Black Power era.Simones performance on that Montgomery night catapulted her into a lead role in the civil rights movement, with Hughes as her guide. In Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood, W. Jason Miller offers a riveting history of how their relationship helped spark the birth of Black Powerindeed, the phrase itself, made famous by Stokely Carmichael, was a quote from collaborative lyrics by the two. Hughes gave Simone the fuel to be one of the most politically charged artists of the era, while Simone offered Hughes a way to carry his influence into pop music and shape a national movement. Drawing on new firsthand accounts, Miller takes readers inside one of the most powerful friendships in music and civil rights history.
Informazioni sul libro
Inglese
Categorie
Regala questo libro oggi stesso
È facile
1 Aggiungi il libro al carrello e scegli la consegna come regalo 2 Ti invieremo subito il buono 3 Il libro arriverà all'indirizzo del destinatarioCiao! Sono Libroamiko, il tuo consulente di libri.
Come posso aiutarti?