Every Tone A Testimony African American Aural History 2 CD Set

Every Tone A Testimony – Smithsonian Folkways African American Aural History

This double CD draws on the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in sound – an aural history. 59 tracks feature an unparalled assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by historically renowned musicians, writers and activitists. Extensive booklet accompanies the package.

Disc 1 The Oral Tradition – Langston Hughes, Annie Grace Horn Dodsonn and others
Testimony Against Slavery – Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and others reading Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, among others
Reconstruction and Repression – Booker T. Washington; Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry; Elizabeth Cotton; Ida B. Wells-Barnett read by Ruby Dee; and others
Voice of Pride and Protest I – W.E.B. DuBois; Rev Gary Davis; Lead Belly; James P. Johnson

Disc 2 – Voices of Pride and Protest II – Paul Robeson; Big Bill Broonzy; Margaret Walker; and others
The Sounds of Twentieth-Century America – Muddy Waters; Solomon Burke; Jaunita Johnson and the Gospel Tones, and others
Voices of Civil Rights and Black Power – Martin Luther King Jr.; Bobby Seale; Nikki Giovanni, and others
Contemporary African America Voices – Amiri Baraka; Hamiet Bluiett; Jayne Cortez; Golden Eagles; and others