Various Artists - South African Freedom / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

African and Afro-American Drums is an examination of African drumming and it's influence on the music of the Americas. Representing eight countries in the American continents, Harold Courlander has compiled an anthology of drum music from three continents and explores it's various uses as well as chronicles the evolution of drum music. Extensive liner notes accompany this album and include a transcription of Haitian Juba Dance drums by George Herzog. Album Tracks 1. Ceremonial Drums 2. Ceremonial Drums 3. Dance Drums 4. Stamping Tubes 5. Harvest Festival 6. Salute to a Chief 7. Drums for the Deity Orishania 8. Dance Drums 9. Slit-Log Talking Drum 10. Ndlamu Dance Drums 11. Festival Drumming 12. Djuka Dance Drums 13. Jumping Dance Drums 14. Djuka Dance Drums 15. Lucumi 16. Quitta Seche Dance Drums 17. Juba Dance Drumming 18. Cuminia Drums 19. Drum Rhythms for the Deity Eshu 20. Drum Rhythms for the Deity Ogoun 21. Bamboula Dance Drums 22. Djuka Drums 23. Jazz Drumming 24. Street Band Drumming

This 1961 recording of spirituals, gospel and new music to Inchexpress the spirit of freedomInch was the result of an effort by producer and performer Guy Carawan to bring together singers representative of hundreds of thousands African American students from the south participating in sit-ins, stand-ins and freedom rides for Inchfirst class citizenshipInch during the civil rights movement. The songs are performed by the Montgomery gospel trio, comprised of three high school girls from Alabama, as well as four seminary students who call themselves Inchthe Nashville quartetInch in an impromptu session as recorded by Moses Asch. 12 songs, 34 minutes, featuring liner notes detailing the history of the civil rights movement, pictures, and song lyrics. Album Tracks 1. This Little Light of Mine 2. There's a Meeting Here Tonight 3. Rock My Soul 4. Hold on 5. Let Us Break Bread Together 6. We Are Soldiers in the Army 7. We Shall Not Be Moved 8. Your Dog 9. Michael, Row the Boat Ashore 10. I'm So Glad 11. Oh, Freedom 12. We Shall Overcome

On August 28th, 1963, more than 250,000 people from across the United States gathered in Washington DC to join in peaceful protest against racial segregation and demand equal rights legislation from Congress. This radio broadcast, with performances by Joan Baez, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Marian Anderson, and featuring Martin Luther King Jr.'s inspiring InchI have a dreamInch speech, documents this pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement, where the nation came together to demand that everyone be Inch... free at last!Inch Four-page transcription of broadcast. Album Tracks 1. We Shall Overcome/Press Conference/I Have a Dream/He's Got the Whole World in His Hands 2. Oh! Freedom - Rabbi Joachim Prinz Complete Speech / Ballad of Medgar Evans / Ballad of Medgar Evans / from the Speeches of W.M. Young, J. Lewis, R. Wilkins / If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song) / the Demands / the Pledge