It takes the average reader 2 hours and 41 minutes to read Odetta’s One Grain of Sand by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights. Released the same year as her famous rendition of “I'm on My Way” at the March on Washington, One Grain of Sand captures the social justice project that was Odetta's voice. “There...
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand by Matthew Frye Jacobson is 157 pages long, and a total of 40,349 words.
This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 40 minutes to read Odetta’s One Grain of Sand aloud.
Odetta’s One Grain of Sand is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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