{"product_id":"9781501333323","title":"Odetta’s One Grain of Sand","description":"\u003ch3\u003e33 1\/3\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eOdetta’s One Grain of Sand\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMatthew Frye Jacobson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eMusic \/ Genres \u0026amp; Styles \/ Folk \u0026amp; Traditional\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReleased the same year as her famous rendition of “I'm on My Way” at the March on Washington, \u003ci\u003eOne Grain of Sand \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. “There was no way I could \u003ci\u003esay\u003c\/i\u003e the things I was thinking, but I could \u003ci\u003esing\u003c\/i\u003e them,” she later remarked.  In pieces like “Moses, Moses,” “Ain't No Grave,” and “Ramblin' Round Your City,” \u003ci\u003eOne Grain of Sand\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e white, this young woman's pride in black artistry and resolve, and her open rage and her challenge to whites to recognize who \u003ci\u003ethey\u003c\/i\u003e were and who they had been, too, modeled the very honesty and courage that the movement now called for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMatthew Frye Jacobson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Historian's Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, a web-based documentary project, and his forthcoming film, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way from Home:  The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 April 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501333323\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e160\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5.12\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332573429900,"sku":"9781501333323","price":13.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_89a9f915-b670-4862-b622-b6261cba62cc.jpg?v=1783604142","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501333323","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}