Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
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Brand: SING FOR FREEDOMEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-07-13
Model: SFW40032
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- We Are Soldiers In The Army - Mary Ethel Dozier, Minnie Hendrick, Gladys Burnette Carter
- Keep Your Hands On The Plow - Mary Ethel Dozier, Minnie Hendrick, Gladys Burnette Carter
- This Little Light - Mary Ethel Dozier, Minnie Hendrick, Gladys Burnette Carter
- You Better Leave Segregation Alone - James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Joseph Carter, Samuel Collier
- Your Dog Loves My Dog - James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Joseph Carter, Samuel Collier
- Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around - Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett
- I Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom - Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett
- Keep Your Eyes On The Prize - Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett
- Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly - Cordell Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett
- Up Above My Head - Betty Mae Fikes
- This Little Light - Betty Mae Fikes
- Brown Baby - Betty Mae Fikes
- Which Side Are You On? - Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Cordell Reagon
- I'm Gonna Sit At The Welcome Table - Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Cordell Reagon
- Mass Meeting And Prayer - Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Cordell Reagon
- Guide My Feet - Doc Reese
- I'm On My Way - Mamie Brown, Carlton Reece & The Birmingham Movement Choir
- Rev. Ralph Abernathy - Mamie Brown, Carlton Reece & The Birmingham Movement Choir
- Yes, We Want Our Freedom - Cleo Kennedy, Carlton Reece
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cleo Kennedy, Carlton Reece
- Ninety-Nine-And-A-Half Won't Do - Carlton Reece & The Birmingham Movement Choir
- Get On Board - Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses
- No Danger In The Water - Bob Moses
- Medgar Evers Speaking - Bob Moses
- Keep Your Eyes On The Prize - Bob Moses
- We Shall Overcome - Cordell, Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Rutha Harris, Charles Neblett, Dorothy Cotton, Pete Seeger
Free Music Notes for Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
Free Music Review: Yes, They Were Soldiers Of Freedom
Hit: 5 Stars
Every social movement, and the Southern black civil rights movement of the 1950's and early 1960's was no exception, not only has to have its slogans, its placards and its orators but also its anthems. For those unfamiliar with its history this little CD will, in song and speech, give the highlights of the movement as it pressed on from Montgomery, Alabama in the mid-1950's to Albany, Georgia, Greenwood, Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama and many, many other smaller but no less important ports of call in the struggle for first- class citizenship for blacks in the Jim Crow South. For those familiar with the story of the struggle down South you will get a full storehouse of memories of the songs that became part of the greater culture and still sent a chill of excitement and expectation through this reviewer' s body when he listened to them. As we are painfully aware of today, that civil rights movement fell far short of creating that racial equality we were after but certainly not for lack of inspiring music.
As mentioned above, an added attraction here is some of the oration of the time by the black leadership. Obviously that meant Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference but also Bob Moses from the voter-registration drives led by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). And the NAACP's Medgar Evers before his assassination. And the star of the piece- the heroic leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Fannie Lou Hamer who calmly set about turning the tables on the establishment. Two things should be remembered from that time. One is Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddamn" (not included here) for that says in song what the struggle was all about and what civil rights workers were up against. The other, for all those who want to praise the Democratic Party's role in civil rights history just remember that when there was choice between Ms. Hamer's Freedom Democrats and the Jim Crow Democrats in the 1964 Democratic Convention they seated the Jim Crow delegation.
That said , musically the selections here reflect the central importance, good or bad, of the black church in this democratic fight with some "fighting" songs, some of `redemption' and some as fuel to keep the struggle going, especially when the Southern white establishment and their assorted henchmen counter-attacked. The songs that most reflect these themes are " We Are Soldiers In The Army", "This Little Light", "Which Side Are You On?", "Keep Your Eyes On The Prize" and the movement anthem "We Shall Overcome".
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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 31-AUG-1990
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