This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Gayle F. Wald instant download

This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Gayle F. Wald instant download

The remarkable life story of Ella Jenkins, "The First Lady of Children's Music."
Ella Jenkins was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. Her songs "You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song" and "Who Fed the Chickens?" are classics in the world of children's music. In a career spanning more than sixty years, she recorded forty albums, won a lifetime-achievement Grammy, and became the best-selling individual artist in the history of Smithsonian Folkways Records, the independent label that played a significant role in the 1960s folk revival movement and introduced listeners to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. During her remarkable career, Jenkins joined forces with twentieth-century luminaries such as Odetta, Big Bill Broonzy, Armando Peraza, Bayard Rustin, and Fred Rogers. Despite her wide-reaching influence on children's music, Ella Jenkins's sonic civil rights activism isn't widely known today.
Based on dozens of interviews and access...