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...eloquent tutorial in raw American history. Identifiable from the first syllable, her voice fused the thrill of gospel, the techniques of art song - the wisdom that subtlety sometimes trumps volume - and the desperate wail of blues. If a line could be drawn from Bessie Smith to Janis Joplin, from Mahalia Jackson to Maria Callas, it would have to go through Odetta...
...tried to compensate for the absence of black people in her son's life. At night, she came home from work with books on the civil rights movement and recordings of Mahalia Jackson. Her aspirations for racial harmony were simplistic. "She was very much of the early Dr. [Martin Luther] King era," Obama says. "She believed that people were all basically the same under their skin, that bigotry of any sort was wrong and that the goal was then to treat everybody as unique individuals." Ann gave her daughter, who was born in 1970, dolls of every hue: "A pretty...
...only reference to the firestorm over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership in yesterday’s afternoon exercises, Lithgow presented the story of Mahalia Mouse as “oil over troubled waters...
...Your campus was roiled by a bitter, divisive controversy in the last semester of your undergraduate years,” he says. “The book is my cheerful and constructive response to all the turbulence: Mahalia Mouse, you see, studies science...
...noted her ties to gospel music. Not to disparage the excellent essay on black female blues singers, I do have one quibble. The true liberators of black female singers were the great gospel women. Their vocal and physical expressions were a potent, yet separate, part of the patriarchal church. Mahalia Jackson once said, "Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help." And she also commented, "Gospel music is nothing but singing of good tidings--spreading the good news. It will last as long as any music because it is sung straight from the human heart...