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Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History

Released 200159 tracks · 145:00EnglishSmithsonian Folkways

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	The Struggle	Langston Hughes	0:22
1.2	Field Call	Annie Grace Horn Dodson	1:19
1.3	Complaint Call	Enoch Brown	0:44
1.4	Intro and Kneebone Band	Lawrence McKiver and Doretha Skipper	2:56
1.5	Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas	Rich Amerson	2:01
1.6	Jack and Mary and Three Dogs	Janie Hunter	5:55
1.7	Buck Dance	Joe Tucker	1:22
1.8	I'm Goin up North	Children of East York School	1:27
1.9	Pharaoh's Host Got Lost	Lawrence McKiver	1:36
1.10	Lucy Terry: Bars Fight	Arna Bontemps	1:27
1.11	Phillis Wheatley: Earl of Dartmouth	Dorothy F. Washington	0:52
1.12	I Wonder Where My Brother Gone	Annie Grace Horn Dodson	1:21
1.13	Harriet Tubman: Narrative	Dorothy F. Washington	1:03
1.14	Sojourner Truth: Speech at Akron Convention	Ruby Dee	2:09
1.15	Frederick Douglass: Singing Slaves	Ossie Davis	1:04
1.16	Steal Away to Jesus	Kinsey West	1:54
1.17	Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?	Ossie Davis	2:40
1.18	Sarah Parker Remond: Why Slavery Is Still Rampant	Ruby Dee	1:50
1.19	Free at Last	Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward	1:38
1.20	Paul Laurence Dunbar: When Malindy Sings	Margaret Walker	3:50
1.21	There's a Great Camp Meeting	Fisk Jubilee Singers	2:06
1.22	Atlanta Exposition Address	Booker T. Washington	1:17
1.23	John Henry	Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee	4:07
1.24	Fenton Johnson: Banjo Player	Arna Bontemps	0:45
1.25	Boatman Dance	Elizabeth Cotten	1:47
1.26	Shine	Percy Randolph	1:07
1.27	Chopping in the New Ground	Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve State Farms, TX	1:41
1.28	Ida B Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime	Ruby Dee	3:48
1.29	A Recorded Autobiography	W. E. B. Du Bois	2:38
1.30	James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer	Margaret Walker	2:57
1.31	My Heart Is Fixed	Reverend Gary Davis	2:08
1.32	The Titanic	Lead Belly	4:08
1.33	Heritage	Countee Cullen	2:59
1.34	Jungle Drums	James P. Johnson	2:33
2.1	No More Auction Block	Paul Robeson	2:14
2.2	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes	0:47
2.3	If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1:02
2.4	Ma Rainey	Sterling Brown	2:06
2.5	Backwater Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	2:51
2.6	Married Man Blues	Billie & De De Pierce	5:15
2.7	For My People	Margaret Walker	5:45
2.8	The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2	Gwendolyn Brooks	0:51
2.9	Body and Soul	George "Big Nick" Nicholas	3:51
2.10	How He Delivered Me	Juanita Johnson and the Gospel Tones	2:43
2.11	Long Distance Call	Muddy Waters	7:00
2.12	Cry to Me	Solomon Burke	2:17
2.13	Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around	The Freedom Singers	2:35
2.14	Birmingham 1963: Keep Moving	Martin Luther King, Jr.	3:46
2.15	Black Panther Party Platform	Bobby Seale	3:03
2.16	Interview (excerpt)	Angela Davis	1:06
2.17	Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox"	Sarah Webster Fabio	1:42
2.18	Nikki-Rosa	Nikki Giovanni	1:17
2.19	Liberation/poem	Sonia Sanchez	0:39
2.20	Dope	Amiri Baraka	4:49
2.21	The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059	Hamiet Bluiett	3:35
2.22	For the Poets	Jayne Cortez	3:58
2.23	Shotgun Joe	Golden Eagles	5:23
2.24	St. Louis Woman	Ishmael Reed	1:27
2.25	People Everyday	Sister Paulette	3:27

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