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Odetta's One Grain of Sand (Paperback)
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Odetta's One Grain of Sand (Paperback)
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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 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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