Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History

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Tracklist

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#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Struggle
Langston Hughes0:22
2Field Call
Annie Grace Horn Dodson1:19
3Complaint Call
Enoch Brown0:44
4Intro and Kneebone Band
Lawrence McKiver and Doretha Skipper2:56
5Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas
Rich Amerson2:01
6Jack and Mary and Three Dogs
Janie Hunter5:55
7Buck Dance
Joe Tucker1:22
8I'm Goin up North
Children of East York School1:27
9Pharaoh's Host Got Lost
Lawrence McKiver1:36
10Lucy Terry: Bars Fight
Arna Bontemps1:27
11Phillis Wheatley: Earl of Dartmouth
Dorothy F. Washington0:52
12I Wonder Where My Brother Gone
Annie Grace Horn Dodson1:21
13Harriet Tubman: Narrative
Dorothy F. Washington1:03
14Sojourner Truth: Speech at Akron Convention
Ruby Dee2:09
15Frederick Douglass: Singing Slaves
Ossie Davis1:04
16Steal Away to Jesus
Kinsey West1:54
17Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Ossie Davis2:40
18Sarah Parker Remond: Why Slavery Is Still Rampant
Ruby Dee1:50
19Free at Last
Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward1:38
20Paul Laurence Dunbar: When Malindy Sings
Margaret Walker3:50
21There's a Great Camp Meeting
Fisk Jubilee Singers2:06
22Atlanta Exposition Address
Booker T. Washington1:17
23John Henry
guitar:
Brownie McGhee
harmonica:
Sonny Terry
membranophone:
Gene Moore (early blues drummer)
vocals:
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee4:07
24Fenton Johnson: Banjo Player
Arna Bontemps0:45
25Boatman Dance
recorded in:
New Jersey, United States (in 1966-01)
recording engineer:
Mike Seeger (in 1966-01)
guitar:
Elizabeth Cotten
vocals:
Elizabeth Cotten
recording of:
Boatman Dance
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
Elizabeth Cotten1:47
26Shine
Percy Randolph1:07
27Chopping in the New Ground
Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve State Farms, TX1:41
28Ida B Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime
Ruby Dee3:48
29A Recorded Autobiography
W. E. B. Du Bois2:38
30James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer
Margaret Walker2:57
31My Heart Is Fixed
Reverend Gary Davis2:08
32The Titanic
Lead Belly4:08
33Heritage
Countee Cullen2:59
34Jungle Drums
James P. Johnson2:33
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