Various Artists FW05488 / FD 5488
Songs played a large role in the movement to close the racial divide in America during the 1960s, and prayers, chants, sermons, and shouts were also fundamental to this task. This collection of freedom songs was recorded during “The Sing for Freedom Workshop”—a remarkable event that brought together the best of freedom singers to share the history of this tradition, better organize the freedom song movement, and enrich an already powerful repertoire of song.
YEAR RELEASED 1980
RECORD LABEL Folkways Records
SOURCE ARCHIVE Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
COPYRIGHT 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1980 Folkways Records
GENRE(S) African American Music; African American Spoken; Historical Song; Struggle & Protest
COUNTRY(S) United States
CULTURE GROUP(S) African American
LANGUAGE(S) English
SUBJECT(S) Protest songs; United States History; World history
CREDITS
- Guy Carawan – Producer
- Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) – Producer