Odetta's One grain of sand
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-2019
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When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes - classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become 'the next Marian Anderson' - veered away from both opera and musical theatre in favour of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous rendition of 'O Freedom' at the March on Washington, 'One Grain of Sand' captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice.
Main title:
Odetta's One grain of sand / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
Author:
Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Collation:
160 pages ; 17 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781501333323 (pbk)
Dewey class:
782.42162130092782.421621
Language:
English
BRN:
2793358