Various Artists

Every Tone a Testimony: An African American Aural History

Release date 2001

Tracklist

1
The Struggle
0:22
0:22
2
Field Call
1:19
1:19
3
Complaint Call
0:44
0:44
4
Intro and Kneebone Band
2:55
2:55
5
Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas
2:00
2:00
6
Jack and Mary and Three Dogs
5:55
5:55
7
Buck Dance
1:22
1:22
8
I'm Goin up North
1:26
1:26
9
Pharaoh's Host Got Lost
1:35
1:35
10
Lucy Terry: Bars Fight
1:26
1:26
11
Phillis Wheatley: Earl of Dartmouth
0:52
0:52
12
I Wonder Where My Brother Gone
1:20
1:20
13
Harriet Tubman: Narrative
1:03
1:03
14
Sojourner Truth: Speech at Akron Convention
2:09
2:09
15
Frederick Douglass: Singing Slaves
1:04
1:04
16
Steal Away to Jesus
1:54
1:54
17
Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
2:39
2:39
18
Sarah Parker Remond: Why Slavery Is Still Rampant
1:49
1:49
19
Free at Last
1:38
1:38
20
Paul Laurence Dunbar: When Malindy Sings
3:49
3:49
21
There's a Great Camp Meeting
2:05
2:05
22
Atlanta Exposition Address
1:16
1:16
23
John Henry
4:07
4:07
24
Fenton Johnson: Banjo Player
0:45
0:45
25
Boatman Dance
1:46
1:46
26
Shine
1:07
1:07
27
Chopping in the New Ground
1:41
1:41
28
Ida B Wells-Barnett: Lynching, Our National Crime
3:47
3:47
29
A Recorded Autobiography
2:37
2:37
30
James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer
2:57
2:57
31
My Heart Is Fixed
2:07
2:07
32
The Titanic
4:08
4:08
33
Heritage
2:59
2:59
34
Jungle Drums
2:32
2:32
35
No More Auction Block
2:13
2:13
36
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
0:47
0:47
37
If We Must Die
1:01
1:01
38
Ma Rainey
2:06
2:06
39
Backwater Blues
2:51
2:51
40
Married Man Blues
5:15
5:15
41
For My People
5:45
5:45
42
The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2
0:51
0:51
43
Body and Soul
3:50
3:50
44
How He Delivered Me
2:42
2:42
45
Long Distance Call
7:00
7:00
46
Cry to Me
2:16
2:16
47
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
2:34
2:34
48
Birmingham 1963: Keep Moving
3:46
3:46
49
Black Panther Party Platform
3:02
3:02
50
Interview (excerpt)
1:06
1:06
51
Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox"
1:42
1:42
52
Nikki-Rosa
1:16
1:16
53
Liberation/poem
0:38
0:38
54
Dope
4:49
4:49
55
The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059
3:35
3:35
56
For the Poets
3:58
3:58
57
Shotgun Joe
5:22
5:22
58
St. Louis Woman
1:26
1:26
59
People Everyday
3:27
3:27

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