Odetta

Author : Ian Zack
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807035327
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odetta written by Ian Zack and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2020 The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and “Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,” who combatted racism and prejudice through her music. Odetta channeled her anger and despair into some of the most powerful folk music the world has ever heard. Through her lyrics and iconic persona, Odetta made lasting political, social, and cultural change. A leader of the 1960s folk revival, Odetta is one of the most important singers of the last hundred years. Her music has influenced a huge number of artists over many decades, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, the Kinks, Jewel, and, more recently, Rhiannon Giddens and Miley Cyrus. But Odetta’s importance extends far beyond music. Journalist Ian Zack follows Odetta from her beginnings in deeply segregated Birmingham, Alabama, to stardom in San Francisco and New York. Odetta used her fame to bring attention to the civil rights movement, working alongside Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, and other artists. Her opera-trained voice echoed at the 1963 March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery march, and she arranged a tour throughout the deeply segregated South. Her “Freedom Trilogy” songs became rallying cries for protesters everywhere. Through interviews with Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Judy Collins, Carly Simon, and many others, Zack brings Odetta back into the spotlight, reminding the world of the folk music that powered the civil rights movement and continues to influence generations of musicians today. Listen to the author’s top five Odetta hits while you read: 1. Spiritual Trilogy (Oh Freedom/Come and Go with Me/I’m On My Way) 2. I’ve Been Driving on Bald Mountain/Water Boy 3. Take This Hammer 4. The Gallows Pole 5. Muleskinner Blues Access the playlist here: https://spoti.fi/3c2HnF4

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ISBN 13 : 9780439928182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odetta, the Queen of Folk written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a beautiful girl who plunged head-first into the world with a song to sing. Born in Birmingham, this child soon learned to make a whole heap of noise on her auntie's piano. Then she discovered her own instrument-a voice full of brass and thunder! And, oh, did she have a song to sing-spirituals, gospels, work songs. She sang joy. She sang sorrow and struggle. She sang triumph. Her songs told stories of America's history. And, with the help of Baby, her guitar, Odetta blazed a musical trail that served as the roadmap for many folksingers who followed in her footsteps. Presented with luminous paintings and a poetic narrative, the life and times of folk music's queen, will leave readers strumming.

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501333348
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odetta’s One Grain of Sand written by Matthew Frye Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 could sing them,” she later remarked. 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 black history and a vehicle for radical expression. For many among her audience, a song like “Cotton Fields” represented a first introduction to black history at a time when there was as yet no academic discipline going by this name, and when history books themselves still peddled convenient fictions of a fundamentally “happy” plantation past. And for many among her audience, black and white, this young woman's pride in black artistry and resolve, and her open rage and her challenge to whites to recognize who they were and who they had been, too, modeled the very honesty and courage that the movement now called for.

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Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Author : GREGORIO. KOHON
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ISBN 13 : 9781913640514
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odetta in Babylon and the Canada Express written by GREGORIO. KOHON and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kohon and Toni Griffiths stunning translation has the power to transport you to the 1960s, to Buenos Aires, to those firstoverpowering experiences of sexual love. Odetta in Babylon and theCanada Express invites you to step onto the train, and to let go. Loseyourself in the music and enjoy the journey, wherever it takes you.

Author : Ann M. Savage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Rights written by Ann M. Savage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering from 1900 to the present day, this book highlights how female artists, actors, writers, and activists were involved in the fight for women's rights, with a focus on popular culture that includes film, literature, music, television, the news, and online media. Women's Rights: Reflections in Popular Culture offers a succinct yet thorough resource for anyone interested in the relationship between feminism, women's rights, and media. It is ideally suited for students researching popular culture's role in the modern history of women's rights and representation of women, women's rights, and feminism in popular culture. This insightful book highlights of some of the most important moments of women taking a stand for women throughout popular culture history. Each section focuses on an aspect of popular culture. The television section covers important benchmarks, such as Julia, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, and Ellen. Coverage of films includes Christopher Strong, Foxy Brown, and Thelma & Louise; the literature section features the work of influential individuals such as Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison. The book celebrates early musical ground-breakers like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Bessie Smith as well as contemporary artists Janelle Monáe and Pussy Riot. The work of key women activists—including Margaret Sanger, Angela Davis, and Winona LaDuke—is recognized, along with the unique ways women have used the power of the web in their continued effort to push for women's equality.

Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440248915
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goldmine Record Album Price Guide written by Dave Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like you, Goldmine is passionate about vinyl. It rocks our world. So trust us when we say that the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is a vinyl collector's best friend. Inside these pages you'll find the latest pricing and identification information for rock, pop, alternative, jazz and country albums valued at $10 or more. And that's just for starters. Goldmine Record Album Price Guide features: • Updated prices for more than 100,000 American vinyl LPs released since 1948. • A detailed explanation of the Goldmine Grading Guide, the industry standard. • Tips to help you accurately grade and value your records--including promo pressings. • An easy-to-use, well-organized format. Whether you're new to the scene or a veteran collector, Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is here to help!

Author : Thomas J. Stanley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470482559
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stop Acting Rich written by Thomas J. Stanley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals easy ways to build real wealth With well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on how the wealthy act and think. Now, in Stop Acting Rich ? and Start Living Like a Millionaire, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite. Puts wealth in perspective and shows you how to live rich without spending more Details why we spend lavishly and how to stop this destructive cycle Discusses how being "rich" means more than just big houses and luxury cars A defensive strategy for tough times, Stop Acting Rich shows readers how to live a rich, happy life through accumulating more wealth and using it to achieve the type of financial freedom that will create true happiness and fulfillment.

Author : Amy Cox
Publisher : America Star Books
ISBN 13 : 9781630004910
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Odetta the Octopus Teacher written by Amy Cox and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever have to wait for your teacher to help you? Wouldn't it be nice if every teacher had 8 arms! Meet Ms. Odetta the Octopus Teacher! Today, she is inviting you to visit her octopus preschool, under the sea! It is always a wonderful day with Ms Odetta!