093074700327

Every Tone A Testimony

Various Artists

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: SFW47003

Release Date:  27 February 2001

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  093074700327

Genres:  Spoken Word  

  • Description

    This double CD draws upon the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in sound—an 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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. The Struggle - Langston Hughes
      • 2. Field Call - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
      • 3. Complaint Call - Enoch Brown
      • 4. Intro And Kneebone Bend - Lawrence McKiver/Doretha Skipper
      • 5. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train To Arkansas - Rich Amerson
      • 6. Jack And Mary And Three Dogs - Mrs. Janie Hunter
      • 7. Buck Dance - Joe Tucker
      • 8. I'm Goin' Up North - Children Of East York School
      • 9. Pharaoh's Host Got Lost - Lawrence McKiver
      • 10. Bars Fight By Lucy Terry - Arna Bontemps
      • 11. Earl Of Dartmouth - Dorothy F. Washington
      • 12. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone - Annie Grace Horn Dodson
      • 13. Narrative By Harriet Tubman - Dorothy F. Washington
      • 14. Speech At Akron Convention By Sojourner Truth - Ruby Dee
      • 15. Singing Slaves By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis
      • 16. Steal Away To Jesus - Kinsey West
      • 17. What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? By Frederick Douglass - Ossie Davis
      • 18. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant? By Sarah Parker Remond - Ruby Dee
      • 19. Free At Last - Dock Reed/Vera Hall Ward
      • 20. When Malindy Sings By Paul Lawrence Dunbar - Margaret Walker
      • 21. There's A Great Camp Meeting - Fisk Jubilee Singers
      • 22. Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington
      • 23. John Henry - Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
      • 24. Banjo Player By Fenton Johnson - Anna Bontemps
      • 25. Boatman Dance - Elizabeth Cotten
      • 26. Shine - Percy Randolph
      • 27. Chopping In The New Ground - Inmates Of Ramsey Or Retrieve State Farms, TX
      • 28. Lynching, Our National Crime By Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Ruby Dee
      • 29. A Recorded Autobiography - W.E.B. Du Bois
      • 30. Listen Lord, A Prayer By James Weldon Johnson - Margaret Walker
      • 31. My Heart Is Fixed - Reverend Gary Davis
      • 32. The Titanic - Lead Belly
      • 33. Heritage - Countee Cullen
      • 34. Jungle Drums - James P. Johnson

      Disc 2

      • 1. No More Auction Block - Paul Robeson
      • 2. The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - Langston Hughes
      • 3. If We Must Die - Claude McKay
      • 4. Ma Rainey - Sterling Brown
      • 5. Backwater Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
      • 6. Married Man Blues - Billie And Dee Dee Pierce
      • 7. For My People - Margaret Walker
      • 8. The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet 2 - Gwendolyn Brooks
      • 9. Body And Soul - George 'Big Nick' Nicholas
      • 10. How He Delivered Me - Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones
      • 11. Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
      • 12. Cry To Me - Solomon Burke
      • 13. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - SNCC Freedom Singers
      • 14. Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving - Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • 15. Black Panther Party Platform - Bobby Seale
      • 16. Interview (Excerpt) - Angela Davis
      • 17. Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's 'Equinox' - Sarah Webster Fabio
      • 18. Nikki-Rosa - Nikki Giovanni
      • 19. Liberation/Poem - Sonia Sanchez
      • 20. Dope - Amiri Baraka
      • 21. The Village Of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 - Hamlet Bluiett
      • 22. For The Poets - Jayne Cortez
      • 23. Shotgun Joe - Golden Eagles
      • 24. St. Louis Woman - Ishmael Reed
      • 25. People Everyday - Arrested Development