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Songs my mother taught me.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 18722
Available
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- African American legacy recordings series
- African American Legacy recordings series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Gospel music.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Songs and music.
- Hymns, English.
- Lullabies.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Hymns, English.
- Songs.
- Gospel music.
- Hymns.
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (47 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Fannie Lou Hamer : songs my mother taught me
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2015]
- System Details:
- digital optical stereo
- audio file CD audio
- Summary:
- "The 20th child of a Mississippi sharecropper family and a commanding voice of the Civil Rights Movement, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) stood tall against the brutality, indigities and intimidation of implacable racism." --Container.
- Contents:
- Precious Lord (6:22)
- On being a sharecropper / Mrs. Hamer, Julius Lester (5:13)
- Run, mourner, run (1:23)
- City called Heaven (3:31)
- All the pretty little horses (1:34)
- I'm gonna land on the shore (2:29)
- Oh Lord, you know just how I feel (4:04)
- I'm going down to the river of Jordan (2:42)
- Jesus is my only Friend (3:03)
- Pick a bale of cotton (:44)
- Keep your lamps trimmed and burning (1:09)
- Walk with me (1:41)
- This little light of mine (3:08)
- Mass meeting speech (5:08)
- Certainly Lord (1:39)
- Woke up this morning (2:36)
- Amazing Grace / John Newton (1:27).
- Participant:
- Fannie Lou Hamer, performer, interviewee ; Julius Lester, interviewer ; Moses Moon, music recorder.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- Duration: 47 min.
- Program and biographical notes (32 pages : portraits ; 12 cm) in English inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Hamer, Fannie Lou. Speeches. Selections
- ISBN:
- 9786316110428
- 6316110421
- OCLC:
- 905873463
- Publisher Number:
- 093074021620
- 00093074021620 gtin-14
- SFW CD 40216 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
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