Odetta and the Music Connection

Today we mourn the passing of folk singer Odetta, remembered in the New York Times as a musician "whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement."

The Times notes that she sang "O Freedom," a song dating to the days of slavery, at the historic march on Washington for civil rights in 1963. Educators looking to integrate music into the curriculum can find relevant—and very moving—songs in Odetta's catalog. The singer once told the Palm Beach Post that folk music was "the filling in of the history that was left out of the school books."

Andrea H. Antepenko, a 5th grade teacher, describes how she successfully engaged students in American history through music in "The Music Connection," from Educational Leadership's September 2008 issue.

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