Compact disc. Spirituals, work songs and ballads, blues and jazz, rap, and speech excerpts. Includes selections from The Norton anthology of African American music / Henry Louis Gates and Nellie Y. McKay, general editors. Program notes by Robert G. O'Meally and discographical information on container insert. Various performers. Recorded 1925-1982 in various locations.
Contents:
Another man done gone / trad. (Vera Hall) (1:20) -- Been in the storm so long / trad.; arr. Work (Fisk Jubilee Singers) (2:06) -- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? / trad.; arr. Miller (Howard Roberts Chorale/Alvin Ailey) (1:47) -- Steal away to Jesus / trad. (Bernice Johnson Reagon) (3:41) -- Soon I will be done / trad. (Mahalia Jackson) (4:19) -- Take my hand, precious Lord / Dorsey (Clara Ward) (2:39) -- Rosie / trad. (Inmates of the Parchman Farm Penitentiary) (2:50) -- Another man done gone / trad. (Vera Hall) (1:20) -- (cont.) What did I do to be so black and blue? / Waller, Brooks, Razaf (Louis Armstrong) (3:07) -- You may go but this will bring you back / trad. (Zora Neale Hurston) (1:46) -- Good morning blues / Ledbetter (Leadbelly Ledbetter) (2:55) -- See, see rider / trad. (Ma Rainey, Louis Armstrong) (3:16) -- Backwater blues / Smith (Bessie Smith) (3:17) -- Sunnyland / James (Elmore James) (2:20) -- How long blues / trad.; arr. Wilkins (Joe Turner) (5:43) -- What did I do to be so black and blue? / Waller, Brooks, Razaf (Louis Armstrong) (3:07) -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X (Malcolm X) (5:45). Parker's mood / Parker, Pleasure (King Pleasure) (2:56) -- The message / Glover ... [et al.] (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five) (7:11) -- I have a dream / King (Martin Luther King) (5:10) -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X (Malcolm X) (5:45).
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