How Harry Belafonte embraced Black culture in music | American Masters | PBS

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On September 21, 1998, Harry Belafonte spoke about the intersection of music and race and the influence that Paul Robeson had on his career and the Black community as a whole. Interview conducted for "American Masters-Paul Robeson: Here I Stand" (1999), directed by St. Clair Bourne.
Chapters:
00:00 The plight of African Americans
03:02 When Harry Belafonte met Paul Robeson
06:57 How Africa was represented through Robeson's music
07:51 Choosing to make Eurocentric music erases the "inner soul"
09:03 Robeson's embrace of the history and dignity of Black people
09:50 Spiritual music was a vehicle for the Black community to express themselves
11:16 The perception versus the reality of Caribbean music
12:33 How "The Banana Boat Song" represented the working class
13:53 Final conversations with Robeson
15:32 "The essence of life... is in fact, the journey itself."
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[@deloreswillis9224]

RIP… Bro BELAFONTE🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@lucidlioness3253]

Brother Belafonte sleep in heavenly peace.

[@rwcats]

Beautiful....

[@the2ndcoming135]

I think it awesome we look alike too😎

[@maryannerangel9735]

I always loved your singing, Harry Belafonte but I am learning to appreciate more than ever your humanitarian work. You are misses and will be so for a long, long time. Mary Anne Rangel

[@PoetsSoul]

If I could pick anyone to speak with at this moment living or deceased, it would be him. I have so much respect and admiration for him.

[@allenjones3130]

Rest in peace, Harry.

[@debbienewton7634]

I always love to hear this man's voice. He is great and I wish he alive today. Blessed him and we will learn a lot from his speeches. ❤

[@davidcarlson1208]

Wonderful man!

[@maloum-lsodermark7869]

He was a amazing human being! Adorable and so upright and intelligent! It is so hard too understand that a people with so many fantastic artists ,loyars and musicians could be so oppressed by such disgraceful and stupid ideas that apartheid really is...but his life alone has really won over this embarrassment of mindset.

[@LuxuryLindsey]

RIP MR. B "You can cage the singer, but not the song."

[@JSB1882]

There is no other person in the world that I admired more than Mr. Belafonte. I remember an interview with him in Minneapolis and in the end the guy next to me said, "Why don't we hear more from this man - he is so incredibly wise". I had to explain his history and the corporate media black balling of him during the Bush Administration.

[@carolgrabscheid887]

Very powerful and heartfelt.

[@LennyLewis]

So powerful.

[@the2ndcoming135]

Yeah, I kinda figured out the point of Obama’s anger translator. In Black culture you do not talk back to or argue with elders and old heads. That would not have been a good look for the POTUS😂

[@terrenceharris-hughes4436]

Wish they would show Here I Stand on tv

[@andreyarborough9065]

This is beautiful, thank you for posting

[@majarios4280]

One of the greatest to do it all!

[@johnheart6890]

He says a lot of interesting things. “Every generation will have to be responsible for itself.“ I suppose that was a what Paul Robeson said. Things are better in America because these gentlemen sacrificed a lot to make it so. I hope the new generation understands that. As for the essence of life that he mentions, I believe that that has no color. If it did have a color how could harry Bellafonte sing The song ‘Danny boy?’ There’s a live recording of him singing the song and in my personal opinion it’s the best recording. That might be strange to some, in the same way it’s very strange that the best live recording of ‘old man river’ is sung by Frank Sinatra. But the fine tuned Human spirit of artists have no color. Would that we would all realize that ourselves. And that is that.

[@albevargiu]

Assessore alla cultura e assassino

[@albevargiu]

Il professore dottore fa cultura a Golfo aranci con Luciana e Antonio speriamo lo facciano a pasticciere e compleanni ai figli

[@roybodden9243]

@@albevargiu ❤

[@eddasimon1427]

Great man 🌹❤️🌹rip🌹❤️🌹

[@the2ndcoming135]

👨🏽‍🦲🎼 🛋

[@Moonshine54321]

He was also a Marxist. 👎

[@luvatune]

He told you that, did he?????? you are a buffoon