SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Aarons, Leroy F. “Odetta Comes Out of Her Cocoon.” Washington Post, September 5, 1966.

Adler, Renata. “Letter from Selma.” New Yorker, April 10, 1965.

Angell, Stephen Ward. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Angelou, Maya. Heart of a Woman. New York: Random House, 2009.

——. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1997.

Baez, Joan. And a Voice to Sing With. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Baldwin, James. “A Negro Assays the Negro Mood.” New York Times Magazine, March 12, 1961.

Barnett, LaShonda Katrice. I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007.

Belafonte, Harry. My Song. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.

Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks: A Life. New York: Viking, 2000.

Byrd, Ayana D., and Lori L. Tharps. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.

Carpenter, Bil. “Sweet Home Alabama.” Goldmine, February 28, 1997.

Carson, Clayborne, senior editor. The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., Vol. 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Clancy, Liam. The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Cohen, Ronald D. Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Collins, Judy. Singing Lessons: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.

——. Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music. Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, 2011.

Dunaway, David King. How Can I Keep from Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger. New York: Villard Books, 2008.

Dylan, Bob. Chronicles. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Ford, Tanisha. Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Harper Collins, 1986.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reader. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2012.

Gavin, James. Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret. New York: Back Stage Books, 2006.

Gibson, Bob, and Carole Bender. Bob Gibson: I Come for to Sing. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2001.

Grams, Martin, Jr., and Les Rayburn. The Have Gun—Will Travel Companion. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing, 2000.

Greenberg, Mark. “Power and Beauty: The Legend of Odetta.” Sing Out! 36, no. 2, August–September–October 1991.

Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street. New York: Picador, 2001.

Halprin, Sara. Seema’s Show: A Life on the Left. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Ian, Janis. Society’s Child. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008.

King, Coretta Scott. My Life, My Love, My Legacy. New York: Henry Holt, 2017.

LaMonte, Edward Shannon. Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900–1975. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.

MacDonald, J. Fred. Blacks and White TV: African Americans in Television Since 1948 (originally Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948). Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1983.

Makeba, Miriam. Makeba: My Story. New York: New American Library, 1987.

McKeon, Belinda. “Odetta’s Musical Odyssey Not Finished Yet.” Irish Times, June 24, 2006.

Meyerson, Harold, and Ernie Harburg. Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz? Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.

Morris, Bob. “No More New Year-Birthday Blues.” New York Times, December 31, 1995.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Anti-Negro Propaganda in School Textbooks, 1939. Pamphlet.

O’Connor, Rory. “Albert Grossman’s Ghost.” Musician, June 1, 1987.

Okun, Milt, and Richard Sparks. Along the Cherry Lane. Beverly Hills, CA: Classical Music Today, 2011.

Packer, George. Blood of the Liberals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Petrus, Stephen, and Ronald D. Cohen. Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Raymond, Emilie. Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

Richardson, Tony. Long Distance Runner: A Memoir. New York: William Morrow, 1993.

Rothel, David. Richard Boone: A Knight Without Armor in a Savage Land. Madison, NC: Empire Publishing, 2000.

Schilling, Jerry, with Chuck Crisafulli. Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley. New York: Gotham Books, 2006.

Seeger, Pete. The Incompleat Folksinger. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

Slick, Grace. Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir. New York: Warner Books, 1998.

Smith, R. J. The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African American Renaissance. New York: Public Affairs, 2006.

Sounes, Howard. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan. New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Southworth, Gertrude Van Duyn, and John Van Duyn Southworth. American History. Syracuse, NY: Iroquois Publishing Company, 1933.

Spencer, Kathleen L. Art and Politics in Have Gun—Will Travel: The 1950s Television Western as Ethical Drama. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014.

Spitz, Bob. Dylan: A Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Szwed, John. Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World. New York: Viking Penguin, 2010.

Van Matre, Lynn. “Odetta’s Friend Jo: ‘Got the Joy Back.’” Chicago Tribune, June 14, 1974.

Van Ronk, Dave, with Elijah Wald. The Mayor of MacDougal Street: A Memoir. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2005.

Wald, Elijah. Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties. New York: Dey Street, 2015.

——. Josh White: Society Blues. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Wein, George. Myself Among Others: A Life in Music. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.

Williamson, Marianne. A Return to Love. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Works Progress Administration. Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
Archives

American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (AFC)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (SCRBC)

Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SFC)

Media

Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. v. Odetta Felious, Supreme Court of the State of New York, filed April 24, 1959, retrieved from microfiche.

Dinner with the President, Columbia Broadcasting System, January 31, 1963, Paley Center for Media.

Inaugural Evening at Ford’s Theatre. Columbia Broadcasting System, January 30, 1968, Paley Center for Media.

Interviews

Jo Mapes interview by Ronald D. Cohen, July 23, 1993. Ronald D. Cohen Collection, SFC.

Odetta interview by Camille O. Cosby for the National Visionary Leadership Project, 2007. AFC, Library of Congress.

Odetta interview by Celestine Ware at WBAI-FM, New York, April 14, 1971. Pacifica Radio Archives.

Odetta interview by Hartford Smith Jr. for Seeds of Discontent, WDET, Wayne State University, 1968. American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Odetta interview by Peggy Bulger, November 3, 2003. AFC. Accessed at https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4735.

Odetta interview by Ronald D. Cohen, August 6, 1992. Ronald D. Cohen Collection, SFC.

Odetta interview in Los Angeles, September 1958. Don Hill and David Mangurian Collection, AFC.

Odetta interviews by Shawn Wilson for thehistorymakers.org, March 17, 2006, December 6, 2006.

Odetta interviews by Studs Terkel on WFMT, Chicago, October 31, 1956, September 4, 1957. Library of Congress, Division of Recorded Sound.

Odetta memorial recording, February 24, 2009, Riverside Church, New York City. Collection of Thelma Blitz.

Odetta Papers, SCRBC.

Israel G. Young interview by Richard Reuss, July 8, 1965. Mitch Blank collection.