{"id":1078,"date":"2008-12-05T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:51:03","slug":"folk-singer-odetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1078","title":{"rendered":"Folk Singer Odetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folk singer Odetta died on Tuesday, December 2nd, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97735199&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1003\">NPR<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Odetta&#8217;s folk songs made her a symbol of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955-1968)\">civil rights movement<\/a>. She performed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington\">Civil Rights March on Washington<\/a> in 1963 and sang &#8220;O Freedom.&#8221; Her ballads and songs became, for many, the soundtrack to the American civil rights movement. Manager Doug Yeager says Odetta died Tuesday of heart disease at the age of 77.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/odetta.jpg\" alt=\"Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues CD cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>If you&#8217;d like to hear her sing, your University Library has some recordings, including <a href=\"http:\/\/music.barnesandnoble.com\/Sings-Ballads-and-Blues\/Odetta\/e\/600491100427\/?itm=2\"><em>Odetta sings ballads and blues<\/em><\/a> <span style=\"color: #333333\">(1st-floor Media Center CDs, M1630.18.O43 O43 2005)<\/span>. It includes &#8220;O Freedom.&#8221; Just search the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> to find other recordings.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about Odetta using the Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a> and reference sources. For example, search Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) database via Ebscohost to get <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&#038;profile=ehost&#038;defaultdb=brb\">Odetta&#8217;s entry in <em>Current Biography<\/em><\/a>. Search the <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/refuniv.odyssi.com\">Reference Universe database<\/a> to find resources in the Reference Collection that have information about Odetta, such as the <em>Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History<\/em>, 2nd ed. <span style=\"color: #333333\">(2nd-floor Reference Collection, E185 .E54 2006)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance in finding additional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folk singer Odetta died on Tuesday, December 2nd, according to NPR: Odetta&#8217;s folk songs made her a symbol of the civil rights movement. She performed at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963 and sang &#8220;O Freedom.&#8221; Her ballads &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[490,1476,1475,279],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-cds","tag-folk-singers","tag-odetta","tag-reference-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}