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| Genre/Form: | History Songs and music Compact discs |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: White, Shane. Sounds of slavery. Boston : Beacon Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)608509921 |
| Material Type: | Music, Audio book, etc. |
| Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Shane White; Graham J White |
| ISBN: | 0807050261 9780807050262 080705027X 9780807050279 |
| OCLC Number: | 56535187 |
| Description: | xxii, 241 pages + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | The lords of sounds -- "All we knowed was go and come by de bells and horns" -- "To translate everyday experiences into living sound" -- "De music [of the slaves] make dese Cab Calloways of today git to de woods an' hide -- "Sing no hymns of your own composing" -- "He can invent a plausible tale at a moment's warning" -- "Boots or no boots, I gwine shout today!" -- "When we had a black preacher that was heaven" -- Soundtracks of the city: Charleston, New York, and New Orleans -- Soundtracks of the city: Richmond in the 1850s -- Epilogue: The sound of freedom -- Notes -- The sounds of slavery: Recordings of African American field calls, songs, prayers, and sermons. CD: "Arwhoolie" holler / Thomas J. Marshall -- Levee holler / Enoch Brown -- Field holler / Roosevelt "Giant" Hudson -- "Oh if your house catches fire" levee camp holler / Willie Henry Washington -- "Roxie" / Convicts, Mississippi -- "New buryin' ground" / John Brown and African American convicts -- "Long hot summer day" / Clyde Hill and African American convicts -- "Go preach my gospel" / Deacon Harvey Williams and the New Zion Baptist Church congregation -- "Jesus, My God, I know his name" / Willie Henry Washington, Arthur Bell, Robert Lee Robertson and Abraham Powell -- "Go to sleep" / Florida Hampton -- "The buzzard and the cooter" / Demus Green -- "Prayer" / Rev. Henry Ward -- "Run, old Jeremiah" / Joe Washington Brown and Austin Coleman -- "Job, Job" / Mandy Tartt, Sims Tartt and Betty Atmore -- "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" / Cilfford Reed, Johnny Mae Medlock and Julia Griffin -- "Have mercy, Lord" / Mary Tollman and the Rev. Henry Ward -- "The unusual task of the gospel preacher" / Rev. Harry Singleton -- "The man of calvary" / Sin-Killer Griffin. |
| Responsibility: | Shane White and Graham White. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Includes compact disc (cd) of historic recordings.
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- Songs -- Southern States -- History.
- Oral communication -- Southern States -- History.
- Plantation life -- Southern States.
- Southern States -- Social life and customs.
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
- African Americans -- Southern States -- History.
- Aural history -- Southern States.
- African Americans.
- Aural history.
- Manners and customs.
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- Plantation life.
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- Southern States.
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