She earned a musicĭegree from Los Angeles City College. “But I myself didn’t have anything to measure it by.”įound her own voice by listening to blues, jazz and folk music from theĪfrican-American and Anglo-American traditions. Teacher told my mother that I had a voice, that maybe I should study,” Mother, Flora Sanders, moved to Los Angeles. The road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon yourįather, Reuben Holmes, died when she was young, and in 1937 she and her Way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. Walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which
York Times in 2007 for its online feature “The Last Word.” “You’re Were liberation songs,” she said in a videotaped interview with The New Songs and work songs recorded in the fields of the Deep South - shaped The music of that time and place - particularly prison Holmes was born in Birmingham, Ala., on Dec. Slavery days: “O freedom, O freedom, O freedom over me, And before I’dīe a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be Her song that day was “O Freedom,” dating to Sang at the march on Washington, a pivotal event in the civil rights The woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery,Īla., was once asked which songs meant the most to her. Washington in the quest to end racial discrimination. Walked the roads of Alabama and Mississippi and the boulevards of She was a formative influence on dozens of artists, includingĪccompaniment to the black-and-white images of the freedom marchers who He added that she had been hoping to sing atĬarnegie Hall, made highly influential recordings of blues and ballads,Īnd became one of the most widely known folk-music artists of the 1950sĪnd ’60s. Renditions of spirituals and blues became part of the soundtrack of the She was 77.įorce of the folk music revival in the 1950s. The singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs ofĪmerican folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 Thank you Odetta and rest in peace sister. Her extraordinary legacy will never die so longĪs there are other artists and cultural workers to continue in her Her many andĬrucial contributions to the Movement were an inspiration and a clarionĬall for many to join and participate in the ongoing global struggle forĭemocracy and Peace. Vision, and fierce committment to social, racial, and economic justice,Īs well as gender equality will be sorely missed. Influence on generations of socially conscious and engaged singers, The true authentic icons of the Civil Rights Movement and a major So please join me in this ongoing visceral, investigative, and cerebral quest to explore, enjoy, and pay homage to the endlessly creative and uniquely magisterial dimensions of MUSIC in all of its guises and expressive identities.Ĭultural GIANT and a great artist died yesterday. in order to search for what individual artists and ensembles do creatively to challenge and transform our ingrained ideas and attitudes of what music is and could be. Thus this magazine will strive to critically question and go beyond the conventional imposed notions and categories of what constitutes the generic and stylistic definitions of 'Jazz', 'classical music', 'Blues', 'Rhythm and Blues', 'Rock ' n Roll', 'Pop', 'Funk', 'Hip Hop' etc. I'm also interested in critically examining the wide range of ideas and opinions that govern our commodified notions of the production, consumption, marketing, and commercial exchange of organized sound(s) which largely define and thereby (over)determine our present relationships to music in the general political economy and culture. The purpose is to openly explore, examine, investigate, reflect on, studiously critique, and take opulent pleasure in the sonic and aural dimensions of human experience known and identified to us as MUSIC. This online magazine features the very best in contemporary creative music in this creative timezone NOW (the one we're living in) as well as that of the historical past.
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