093074008423

Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966

Various Artists

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Format: CD

Cat No: SFW40084

Release Date:  21 January 1997

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093074008423

Genres:  Folk  Blues  

  • Description

    This double-CD reissue documents a central aspect of the cultural environment of the Civil Rights Movement, acknowledging songs as the language that focused people's energy. These 43 tracks are a series of musical images, of a people in conversation about their determination to be free. Many of the songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches, where people from different life experiences, predominantly black, with a few white supporters, came together in a common struggle. These freedom songs draw from spirituals, gospel, rhythm and blues, football chants, blues and calypso forms. The enclosed booklet written by Bernice Johnson Reagon provides rare historic photographs along with the powerful story of African American musical culture and its role in the Civil Rights Movement. "The music of the spirit with the history of the flesh." —New York Daily News

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Freedom Medley: Freedom Chant/Oh Freedom/This Little Light Of Mine - Freedom Singers
      • 2. This Little Light Of Mine - Betty Mae Fikes
      • 3. If You Miss Me From The Back Of The Bus - Betty Mae Fikes
      • 4. Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race - Voices Of Civil Rights Movement
      • 5. Get On Board, Children - Willie Peacock
      • 6. Calypso Freedom - Willie Peacock
      • 7. Freedom Now Chant - Voices Of Civil Rights Movement
      • 8. Oh Freedom - Hollis Watkins
      • 9. Ain' Scared Of Nobody - Amanda B. Perdew/Virginia Davis
      • 10. Leaning On The Everlasting Arms - Voices Of Civil Rights Movement
      • 11. Sermon - Rev. Lawrence Campbell
      • 12. We Are Soldiers In The Army - Voices Of Civil Rights Movement
      • 13. Go Tell It On The Mountain - Fannie Lou Hamer
      • 14. Wade In The Water - Fannie Lou Hamer
      • 15. Come Bah Yah - Willie Peacock
      • 16. Walk With Me, Lord - Fannie Lou Hamer
      • 17. Jesus On The Mainline, Tell Him What You Want - Sam Block
      • 18. Freedom Train - Sam Block
      • 19. Don't You Think It's About Time That We All Be Free - Mabel Hillary
      • 20. We're Marching On To Freedom Land - Carlton Reese
      • 21. We Shall Overcome - Voices Of Civil Rights Movement

      Disc 2

      • 1. We'll Never Turn Back - SNCC Freedom Singers, Emory Harris
      • 2. We Shall Not Be Moved - SNCC, Rutha Harris
      • 3. Certainly, Lord - CORE Freedom Singers
      • 4. Get Your Rights, Jack - CORE Freedom Singers
      • 5. Which Side Are You On? - SNCC Freedom Singers, Cordell Reagon
      • 6. Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom - SNCC Freedom Singers, Bernice Johnson
      • 7. Been In The Storm So Long - Bernice Johnson
      • 8. Dog, Dog - SNCC Freedom Singers, Cordell Reagon
      • 9. A & P Song - Integration Grooves
      • 10. Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly - SNCC Freedom Singers, Bertha Gober
      • 11. I Told Jesus - Bertha Gober
      • 12. 99 1/2 Won't Do - Alabama Christian Movement Choir, Carlton Reese
      • 13. I'm On My Way - Alabama Christian Movement Choir, Mamie Brown
      • 14. City Called Heaven - Cleo Kennedy
      • 15. In The Mississippi River - SNCC Freedom Singers, Marshall Jones
      • 16. Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - SNCC Freedom Singers, Cordell Reagon
      • 17. Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Jimmy Collier & The Movement Singers, Diane Smith
      • 18. Governor Wallace - SNCC Freedom Singers, Charles Neblett
      • 19. Ballad Of Medger Evers - SNCC Freedom Singers, Matthew Jones
      • 20. Uncle Tom's Prayer - Cordell Reagon
      • 21. Oginga Odinga - SNCC Freedom Singers, Matthew Jones
      • 22. We Shall Overcome - SNCC Freedom Singers