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Vor einem Tag · Count Basie, Satchmo Armstrong, and Duke Ellington were as much archetypes for Black music as Joe Louis was for Black boxing and Paul Robeson was for the Black stage—and much as Louis and Robeson became symbols of their art rather than just their race, so our musicians were known not as great Black jazzmen but as great jazzmen. Barrier breakers, indeed.”
Vor 3 Tagen · Literature, critical writing, music, theater, musical theater, and the visual arts were transformed by this movement; it also affected politics, social development, and almost every aspect of the African American experience from the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s.
Vor 5 Tagen · Following the success of African Journey Eslanda began to be viewed, not just as Mrs Paul Robeson, but also as a public intellectual and expert on Africa. Yet her radical views led her to come under FBI surveillance, which Ransby comprehensively details.
Vor 2 Tagen · It’s hard music to play, because Earth has a very specific sound and feeling, and it’s very slow, and you have to get into this very particular zone to play with Dylan. It took me some time. It’s actually very difficult to play slow, or to just not play. It has as much to do with what you’re not doing as with what you’re doing. And that’s really hard.”
Vor 2 Tagen · Paul Robeson Peekskill Riots In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Peekskill Riots, there will be two performances featuring Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss CORTLANDT ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Black Americans Paul Robeson and Alphaeus Hunton spoke out in support of African freedom and decolonization, the anti-apartheid struggle, and other political movements. Hunton spent some years in Ghana in the 1960s and died in Zambia. In the 1980s there was an Afrocentric movement of sorts that filtered into popular culture. The late 1980s and early 1990s was an era of “
Vor 3 Tagen · During the early 1950s, the ACLU continued to steer a moderate course through the Cold War. When singer Paul Robeson was denied a passport in 1950, even though he was not accused of any illegal acts, the ACLU chose not to defend him.
