Odetta's One Grain of Sand Jacobson Matthew Frye Yale University USAPaperback
Odetta's One Grain of Sand Jacobson Matthew Frye Yale University USAPaperback When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "the next Marian Anderson"-veered…
Specifikacia Odetta's One Grain of Sand Jacobson Matthew Frye Yale University USAPaperback
Odetta's One Grain of Sand Jacobson Matthew Frye Yale University USAPaperback
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 theater in favor 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 "I'm on My Way" at the March on Washington, One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. In pieces like "Moses, Moses," "Ain't No Grave," and "Ramblin' Round Your City," One Grain of Sand embodies Odetta's approach to the folk repertoire as both an archive of "There was no way I could say the things I was thinking, but I could sing them," she later remarked.
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