After their publication and following his service in WWII, Attaway met Harry Belafonte and the two quickly forged a lifelong friendship and musical collaboration. Tall quarto, original blue, gold and rose cloth, original pictorial dust jacket.įirst edition of African American novelist Attaway's celebration of the African Caribbean tradition in music featuring 26 songs, including "Day-O" and other classics on the breakthrough 1956 Belafonte album, Calypso, which was a collaboration between Attaway, Belafonte, Lord Burgess and others, beautifully illustrated by William Charmatz, in original dust jacket.Īttaway, "an exceedingly important black fictive voice of his generation," is best known for his novels, Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939) and Blood on the Forge (1941) (Yarborough in Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, 30). "COME MISTER TALL-Y-MAN, TALL-Y ME BANANA"
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