Various Artists - Every Tone a Testimony [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This double CD draws upon the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in soundu2014an aural history. Encompassing both the African American oral and literary traditions, these 59 tracks feature an unparalleled assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by historically renowned African American musicians, writers, and activists. The sounds collected here are testimony to the power, creativity, and resilience of Black expressive forms that have received recognition throughout the world. 59 tracks run two hours and 27 minutes. 40-page booklet.

The Struggle - Langston Hughes

No More Auction Block - Paul Robeson

Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson

The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - Langston Hughes

Complaint Call - Enoch Brown

If We Must Die - Claude McKay

Intro And Kneebone Bend - Lawrence McKiver/Doretha Skipper

Ma Rainey - Sterling Brown

Brother Terrapin, Slow Train To Arkansas - Rich Amerson

Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy

Jack And Mary And Three Dogs - Mrs. Janie Hunter

Married Man Blues - Billie And Dee Dee Pierce

Buck Dance - Joe Tucker

For My People - Margaret Walker

I'm Goin' Up North - Children Of East York School

The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks

Pharaoh's Host Got Lost - Lawrence McKiver

Body And Soul - George 'Big Nick' Nicholas

Bars Fight By Lucy Terry - Arna Bontemps

How He Delivered Me - Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones

Earl Of Dartmouth - Dorothy F. Washington

Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters

I Wonder Where My Brother Gone - Annie Grace Horn Dodson

Cry To Me - Solomon Burke

Narrative By Harriet Tubman - Dorothy F. Washington

Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - SNCC Freedom Singers

Speech At Akron Convention By Sojourner Truth - Ruby Dee

Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Singing Slaves By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis

Black Panther Party Platform - Bobby Seale

Steal Away To Jesus - Kinsey West

Interview (Excerpt) - Angela Davis

What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis

Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's 'Equinox' - Sarah Webster Fabio

Why Slavery Is Still Rampant? By Sarah Parker Remond - Ruby Dee

Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni

Free At Last - Dock Reed/Vera Hall Ward

Liberation/Poem - Sonia Sanchez

When Malindy Sings By Paul Lawrence Dunbar - Margaret Walker

Dope - Amiri Baraka

There's A Great Camp Meeting - Fisk Jubilee Singers

The Village Of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 - Hamlet Bluiett

Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington

For The Poets - Jayne Cortez

John Henry - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry

Shotgun Joe - Golden Eagles

Banjo Player By Fenton Johnson - Anna Bontemps

St. Louis Woman - Ishmael Reed

Boatman Dance - Elizabeth Cotten

People Everyday - Arrested Development

Shine - Percy Randolph

Chopping In The New Ground - Inmates Of Ramsey Or Retrieve State Farms, TX

Lynching, Our National Crime By Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Ruby Dee

A Recorded Autobiography - W.E.B. Du Bois

Listen Lord, A Prayer By James Weldon Johnson - Margaret Walker

My Heart Is Fixed - Reverend Gary Davis

The Titanic - Lead Belly

Heritage - Countee Cullen

Jungle Drums - James P. Johnson

• Genre: Other
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 93074700327

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