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- Head Start: With the Child Development
- Artist:
  Child Development Group of Mississippi
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This selection of freedom songs, spirituals, and children's music is a snapshot of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the mid-1960s, when the nationally funded Head Start program struggled... more
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- We Shall Overcome: March / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- On August 28th, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the United States gathered in Washington DC to join in peaceful protest against racial segregation and demand equal rights legislation from... more
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- Sea Island Folk Festival: Moving Star
- Artist:
  Moving Star Hall Singers
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- In 1964, after five winters living and working with the people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina (helping with adult literacy programs and recording singing traditions), musician and musicologist... more
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- Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone
- Artist:
  Elizabeth Cotten
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the mid-1940s, Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) chanced to meet composer Ruth Crawford Seeger at a department store. They began to talk, and Seeger soon hired Cotten to work in the Seeger household.... more
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- Songs of the American Negro Slaves
- Artist:
  Michel LaRue
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Moving Makes Me Magic
- Artist:
  Yvonne C. Johnson
- Genre: Children's, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- South 1: Country Brass / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- The fieldwork for this album sought to explore sources that would lead listeners back to the decades between the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 and 1900. The collector, Frederick Ramsey, Jr..,... more
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- Afro-American Music / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Gospel, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Willis James, former chairman of the Music Department at Spelman College, looks at how the complex musical and linguistic practices of west coast African cultures have been translated into the... more
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- Soul Ain't Soul Is: Poems By Sarah Webster Fabio
- Artist:
  Sarah Webster Fabio
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Each poem in this collection by Sarah Webster Fabio was carefully selected from a ten-year period in her life which she describes as her "mature years." During this time, Fabio was focused on the... more
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- Music in the Streets
- Artist:
  Tony Schwartz
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- From the streets of New York City comes a medley of musical styles that represents the cultural and musical diversity of the Big Apple. Recorded between the spring of 1950 and fall of 1957 by famed... more
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- Nashville Sit-In Story / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- On February 13, 1960 approximately 124 students from American Baptist Theological Seminary, Fisk University, and Tennessee a & I State University staged their first sit-in demonstrations at three... more
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- Wnew's Story of Selma / Various
- Artist:
  Pete Seeger
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Starting with 3200 people in Selma, Alabama and ending in Montgomery, Alabama with 25,000, the Selma-to-Montgomery March is considered to have "... represented the political and emotional peak of the... more
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- Lest We Forget 1: Soul / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Songs played a large role in the movement to close the racial divide in America during the 1960s, and prayers, chants, sermons, and shouts were also fundamental to this task. This album features... more
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- Booker T's Child
- Artist:
  Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- A controversial (though influential) figure in African American history, Booker T. Washington's image is sanctified here as poet and author, Roy L. Hill, combines forces with Washington's daughter,... more
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- Negro Prison Camp Worksongs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Recorded by Pete & Toshi Seeger in the winter of 1951 at two Texas prison farms, this album represents some of the oldest and most traditional work songs found among African American prison... more
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- The Music of Capoeira: Mestre Acordeon
- Artist:
  Mestre Acordeon
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Capoeira is a unique Brazilian art form with African roots, combining movement, music and philosophy. The essence of capoeira is a graceful, flowing game played by two people inside a circle called... more
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- Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia
- Artist:
  McIntosh County Shouters
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- The McIntosh County Shouters, 1993 recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, are known for their compelling fusion of dance, call-and-response singing, and... more
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- Bernice Reagon; Folk Songs: The South
- Artist:
  Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Reagon writes, "My history was wrapped carefully for me by my fore-parents in the songs of the church, the work fields, and the blues. Ever since this discovery I've been trying to find myself, using... more
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- Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
- Artist:
  Nikki Giovanni
- Genre: Poetry, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Those who have gone before and those who are yet to be birthed - it is to these that we owe our legacies. I am hopeful we are at least as strong as our foreparents and I am confident we will be as... more
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- God's Trombones By James Weldon Johnson
- Artist:
  Bryce Bond
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Serving as Visiting Professor of Creative Literature at NYU and working as an author of various published works throughout his career, James Weldon Johnson was an artist as well as an activist for... more
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- Trad Ritual Music Guyana / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- David Blair Stiffler's 1982 recordings, from the Guyana United Apostolitic Mystical Council and St. Matthews Apostolitic Mission, represent the African communities of Guyana. Integrating African... more
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- Street & Gangland Rhythms / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Six 11 and 12 year old boys from the housing projects in New York City make music, to cope and for fun. Their highly sophisticated rhythms on the bongos and emotive songs and chants relate their... more
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- Tambourines to Glory: Gospel Songs
- Artist:
  Second Canaan Baptist Church Porter Singers
- Genre: Gospel, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
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- Rollicking gospel spills out of Harlem's Second Canaan Baptist Church. Langston Hughes wrote lyrics to these songs for his novel and play Tambourines to Glory with a small, independent gospel church... more
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- Recorded Autobiography, Interview with Moses Asch
- Artist:
  W.E.B. Dubois
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This is the extraordinary life of W.E.B. Dubois in his own words. The autobiographical account begins at age seventeen as DuBois left Massachusetts to attend Fisk University in 1885, and ends in the... more
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- Freedom Songs: Selma / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This documentary recording chronicles civil rights protesters singing during a march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol in Montgomery, to demand fair access to voting registration. The songs... more
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