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Songs of slavery and emancipation.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 26825
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--Songs and music.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements--United States--Songs and music.
- Antislavery movements.
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- Spirituals (Songs)--United States.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Folk songs, English--United States.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- Genre:
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Folk music.
- Folk songs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, NY] : Jalopy Records, [2022]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- audio file
- CD audio
- Summary:
- Thirty one songs are presented in a double CD containing new performances in a traditional style. Contains songs which originate as early as 1800 and others as late as the outbreak of the Civil War. Also includes long-lost songs of the abolitionist movement, some of which were written by fugitive slaves as well as free black people, challenging common misconceptions of abolitionism.
- Contents:
- [CD 1]. Slave songs. Agonizing, cruel slavery days / Alden "Max" Smith
- The dirge of St. Malo (Louisiana Creole)
- The dirge of St. Malo (English) / Givonna Joseph, vocal ; Kamau, drum
- Hymn of freedom
- Uncle Gabriel the negro general
- The negro's complaint / Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
- Recognition march of the independance of Hayti / Dr. Kathy Bullock, piano ; Cherokee Griffiths, flute ; dr. James Dreiling, trumpet
- The African hymn
- Nat Turner
- My Father, how long?
- March on
- Children, we all shall be free
- Ol' massa he come dancing out
- The year of Jubilo
- The enlisted men (The negro battle hymn) / Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
- Rebldia na bandabou / Niata, vocals ; Rendel, drums ; Rayson, hoe, ompi tio and broertje.
- [CD 2]. Abolitionist songs. Songs of the "Aliened American" / Sacred Harp singers
- A song for freedom / Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
- Stole and sold from Africa / Hannah From
- Right on! / Sacred Harp singers
- Flight of the bondman / Bern Ensemble
- The underground railroad / Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
- To the white people of America / Eli Smith
- Liberty / Sacred Harp singers
- The band of thieves / Bern Ensemble
- The true spirit / Bluegrass Ensemble Berea College
- Come join the abolitionists / Sacred Harp singers
- The voice of six hundred thousand nominally free / Bern Ensemble
- We're coming! We're coming! / New York Ensemble
- Woman's rights / Sacred Harp singers
- What mean ye? / Sacred Harp singers.
- Participant:
- Various performers.
- Credits:
- Produced by Art in History and Politics.
- Notes:
- Title from disc label.
- Compact discs.
- 80 page liner notes bound in container includes complete lyrics as well as reproductions of historic documents; liner notes also include essays by producer Mat Callahan, scholar Robin D.G. Kelley and activist organizer Kali Akuno.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 1333441829
- Publisher Number:
- 877746004100
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