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Songs of our native daughters / featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell.

Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 22845
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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Giddens, Rhiannon, 1977- performer.
Kiah, Amythyst, performer.
McCalla, Leyla, 1985- performer.
Russell, Allison, performer.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
Series:
African American legacy recordings series
African American legacy recordings
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Folk music--United States.
Folk music.
Enslaved persons.
United States.
Folk songs, English--United States.
Folk songs, English.
Enslaved persons--United States--Songs and music.
Genre:
Folk music.
Folk songs.
Songs and music.
Sound recordings.
Songs.
Music.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (52 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 14 cm).
4 3/4 in.
Place of Publication:
[Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2019]
System Details:
digital
optical
audio file
CD audio
Summary:
Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music, these musicians reclaim, recast, and spotlight the often unheard and untold history of their ancestors, whose stories remain vital and alive today. The material on Songs of Our Native Daughters, written and sung in various combinations, is inspired by New World slave narratives, discrimination and how it has shaped our American experience, as well as musicians such as Haitian troubadour Althiery Dorval and Mississippi Hill Country string player Sid Hemphill, and more.
Contents:
Black myself (4:00)
Moon meets the sun (3:59)
Barbados (5:55)
Quasheba, quasheba (4:44)
I knew I could fly (3:43)
Polly Ann's hammer (4:03)
Mama's cryin' long (2:12)
Slave driver (4:43)
Better git yer learnin' (3:58)
Lavi difisil (2:35)
Blood and bones (4:46)
Music and joy (3:32)
You're not alone (5:42).
Participant:
Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell.
Credits:
Produced by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell.
Notes:
Title from disc label.
Recorded at Cypress House Studio, Breaux Bridge, LA.
Compact disc.
Lyrics on container insert.
OCLC:
1082146797
Publisher Number:
093074023228
740232 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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