Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History - Various Artists

Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History

Various Artists

  • Genre: Spoken Word
  • Release Date: 2001-01-23
  • Explicitness: notExplicit
  • Country: USA
  • Track Count: 59

  • ℗ 2001 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Tracks

Title Artist Time
1
The Struggle Langston Hughes 0:22
2
Field Call Annie Grace Horn Dodson 1:19
3
Complaint Call Enoch Brown 0:44
4
Intro and Knee Bend Doretha Skipper & Lawrence McKiver 2:55
5
Brother Terrapin, Slow Train t Rich Amerson 2:00
6
Jack and Mary and Three Dogs Mrs. Janie Hunter 5:55
7
Buck Dance Joe Tucker 1:22
8
I'm Goin' Up North Children of East York School 1:26
9
Pharaoh's Host Got Lost Lawrence McKiver 1:35
10
Bar Fights Lucy Terry 1:26
11
Earl of Dartmouth Phillis Wheatley 0:52
12
I Wonder Where My Brother Gone Annie Grace Horn Dodson 1:20
13
Narrative Harriet Tubman 1:03
14
Speech at Akron Convention Sojourner Truth 2:09
15
Singing Slaves Frederick Douglass 1:04
16
Steal Away to Jesus Kinsey West 1:54
17
What to the Slave Is the Fourt Frederick Douglass 2:39
18
Why Slavery Is Still Rampant Sarah Parker 1:49
19
Free at Last Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward 1:38
20
When Malindy Sings Paul Laurence Dunbar 3:49
21
There's a Great Camp Meeting Fisk Jubilee Singers 2:05
22
Atlanta Exposition Address Booker T. Washington 1:16
23
John Henry Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry 4:07
24
Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 0:45
25
Boatman Dance Elizabeth Cotten 1:46
26
Shine Percy Randolph 1:07
27
Chopping In the New Ground Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve 1:41
28
Lynching, Our National Crime Ida B Wells-Barnett 3:47
29
A Recorded Autobiography W.E.B. Du Bois 2:37
30
Listen Lord, a Prayer James Weldon Johnson 2:57
31
My Heart Is Fixed Reverend Gary Davis 2:07
32
The Titanic Lead Belly 4:08
33
Heritage Countee Cullen 2:59
34
Jungle Drums James P. Johnson 2:32
35
No More Auction Block Paul Robeson 2:13
36
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 0:47
37
If We Must Die Claude McKay 1:01
38
Ma Rainey Sterling Brown 2:06
39
Backwater Blues Big Bill Broonzy 2:51
40
Married Man Blues Billie & DeDe Pierce 5:15
41
For My People Margaret Walker 5:45
42
The Children of the Poor, Sonn Gwendolyn Brooks 0:51
43
How He Delivered Me Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones 2:42
44
Long Distance Call Muddy Waters 7:00
45
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me The SNCC Freedom Singers 2:34
46
Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving Martin Luther King Jr. 3:46
47
Black Panther Party Platform Bobby Seale 3:02
48
Interview Angela Davis 1:06
49
Together to the Tune of Coltra Sarah Webster Fabio 1:42
50
Nikki-Rosa Nikki Giovanni 1:16

Reviews

  • everytone a testimony

    5
    By Diane P.
    I found it to be very informative and enlightening

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