Odetta : a life in music and protest

Zack, Ian (author.).

Summary: "The untold story of the woman whose music and afro inspired a generation, whose voice provided a soundtrack for the unfolding civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780807035320
ISBN: 0807035327
ISBN: 9780807035337
Physical Description: print
xi, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-237) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A voice like thunder -- From Birmingham to Los Angeles -- Straightened my back, kinked my hair -- The toast of New York -- Getting political -- The fuse is lit -- TV sensation -- That lovely Odetta ... playing a murderess -- Enter Bob Dylan -- In the heart of Jim Crow -- March music -- The times they are a-changin' -- Freedom gets personal -- Hit or miss -- Blues everywhere I go -- "Who will be the Odetta of now?"

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