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Matthew Frye Jacobson

Odetta's One Grain of Sand

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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 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. There was no way I could say the things I was thinking, but I… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-5013-3334-7
  • EAN: 9781501333347
  • Produktnummer: 29876776
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 160 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'423 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Matthew Frye Jacobson teaches American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University, and is the co-founder of the Public Humanities program there. He has written extensively on a range of cultural forms, including film, television, literature, the arts, sports, music, and comedy. In addition to his five books on aspects of race in US culture, he has conducted several documentary, curatorial, and artistic projects, including The Historian's Eye, a web-based documentary project, and his forthcoming film, A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation.

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