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Title Odetta : a life in music and protest / Ian Zack.
Author Zack, Ian, author.
Publisher Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]
Copyright ©2020
Description xi, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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 HF-Adult Nonfiction  BIOGRAPHY ODETTA Z Nearby on shelf  30632003828633 07-29-21  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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?".
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Zack, Ian, Odetta Boston : Beacon Press, 2020. 9780807035337
Subject Odetta, 1930-2008.
African American women singers -- Biography.
Women singers -- United States -- Biography.
Folk singers -- United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780807035320
0807035327
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