Singer: Various
Title: Every Tone A Testimony (An African American Aural History)
Label: Smithsonian Folkways ‎– SFW CD 47003
Type: 2 x CD, Compilation
Country: US
Date of released: 2001
Category: Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk / Soul, Blues, Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Size MP3 zip: 1678 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1478 mb
Rating: 3.9✭
Format: MP3 ADX MPC MP2 MP4 AUD WMA MP3 FLAC

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The Oral Tradition
1-1	–Langston Hughes	The Struggle	0:22
1-2	–Annie Grace Horn Dodson	Field Call	1:15
1-3	–Enoch Brown	Complaint Call	0:40
1-4	–Lawrence McKiver And Doretha Skipper	Intro And Kneebone Bend	2:51
1-5	–Rich Amerson	Brother Terrapin, Slow Train To Arkansas	1:56
1-6	–Mrs. Janie Hunter*	Jack And Mary And Three Dogs	5:53
1-7	–Joe Tucker	Buck Dance	1:19
1-8	–Children Of East York School	I'm Goin' Up North	1:22
1-9	–Lawrence McKiver	Pharaoh's Host Got Lost	1:32
1-10	–Lucy Terry Read By Arna Bontemps	Bars Fight	1:23
Testimony Against Slavery
1-11	–Phillis Wheatley Read By Dorothy F. Washington	Earl Of Dartmouth	0:49
1-12	–Annie Grace Horn Dodson	I Wonder Where My Brother Gone	1:17
1-13	–Harriet Tubman Read By Dorothy F. Washington	Narrative	0:59
1-14	–Sojourner Truth Read By Ruby Dee	Speech At Akron Convention	2:05
1-15	–Frederick Douglass Read By Ossie Davis	Singing Slaves	1:03
1-16	–Kinsey West	Steal Away To Jesus	1:50
1-17	–Frederick Douglass Read By Ossie Davis	What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?	2:36
1-18	–Sarah Parker Remond Read By Ruby Dee	Why Slavery Is Still Rampant	1:47
Reconstruction And Repression
1-19	–Dock Reed And Vera Hall Ward*	Free At Last	1:33
1-20	–Paul Laurence Dunbar Read By Margaret Walker	When Malindy Sings	3:48
1-21	–Fisk Jubilee Singers*	There's A Great Camp Meeting	2:01
1-22	–Booker T. Washington	Atlanta Exposition Address	1:16
1-23	–Brownie McGhee And Sonny Terry	John Henry	4:03
1-24	–Fenton Johnson Read By Arna Bontemps	Banjo Player	0:44
1-25	–Elizabeth Cotten	Boatman Dance	1:42
1-26	–Percy Randolph	Shine	1:03
1-27	–Inmates Of Ramsey Or Retrieve State Farms, TX	Chopping In The New Ground	1:37
1-28	–Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read By Ruby Dee	Lynching, Our National Crime	3:43
Voices Of Pride And Protest I
1-29	–W.E.B. Du Bois*	A Recorded Autobiography	2:33
1-30	–James Weldon Johnson Read By Margaret Walker	Listen Lord, A Prayer	2:55
1-31	–Reverend Gary Davis*	My Heart Is Fixed Written-By – Rev. Gary Davis	2:04
1-32	–Lead Belly*	The Titanic Written-By – H. Ledbetter*	4:04
1-33	–Countee Cullen	Heritage	2:58
1-34	–James P. Johnson*	Jungle Drums Written-By – James P. Johnson*	2:32
Voices Of Pride And Protest II
2-1	–Paul Robeson	No More Auction Block Arranged By – Lawrence Brown	2:09
2-2	–Langston Hughes	The Negro Speaks Of Rivers	0:43
2-3	–Claude McKay	If We Must Die	0:57
2-4	–Sterling Brown*	Ma Rainey	2:06
2-5	–Big Bill Broonzy	Backwater Blues	2:47
2-6	–Billie And Dee Dee Pierce*	Married Man Blues	5:11
2-7	–Margaret Walker	For My People	5:41
2-8	–Gwendolyn Brooks	The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet 2	0:47
The Sounds Of Twentieth-Century America
2-9	–George "Big Nick" Nicholas*	Body And Soul Written-By – Johnny Green	3:48
2-10	–Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones*	How He Delivered Me	2:39
2-11	–Muddy Waters	Long Distance Call Written-By – McKinley Morganfield	6:58
2-12	–Solomon Burke	Cry To Me Written-By – Bert Russell	2:13
Voices Of Civil Rights And Black Power
2-13	–SNCC Freedom Singers*	Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around	2:31
2-14	–Martin Luther King, Jr.*	Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving	3:42
2-15	–Bobby Seale	Black Panther Party Platform	2:59
2-16	–Angela Davis	Interview (Excerpt)	1:05
2-17	–Sarah Webster Fabio	Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox" Written-By – John Coltrane	1:40
2-18	–Nikki Giovanni	Nikki-Rosa	1:12
2-19	–Sonia Sanchez	Liberation/poem	0:34
Contemporary African American Voices
2-20	–Amiri Baraka	Dope	4:48
2-21	–Hamiet Bluiett	The Village Of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 Written-By – Hamiet Bluiett	3:30
2-22	–Jayne Cortez	For The Poets	3:56
2-23	–Golden Eagles	Shotgun Joe Written-By – Jos. Boudreaux*	5:19
2-24	–Ishmael Reed	St. Louis Woman	1:26
2-25	–Arrested Development	People Everyday	3:27

Credits

• Artwork By [Cover Image & Other Artwork] – Jerry Butler
• Coordinator [Production] – Mary Monseur
• Design [Design & Layout] – Joe Parisi
• Mastered By – Pete Reiniger
• Other [Editorial Assistance] – Carla Borden
• Producer, Compiled By, Liner Notes – Robert H. Cataliotti
• Supervised By [Production] – Anthony Seeger, D. A. Sonneborn*

Notes

℗© 2001 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings