Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Smithsonian Folkways
• ASIN: B000001DHL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,445 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #99 in Music > World Music > North America > Appalachian

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 31-AUG-1990

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs and Speeches of hope and Inspiration, June 5, 2001

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs (Audio CD)

If you ever need an emotional and spiritual pick-up, then this CD is for you. So much unknownn talent here. The Birmingham Freedom Choir would certainly give Kirk Franklin and Walter Hawkins a run for the money and the Montgomery Movement Singers have a singing style that's haunting in its simplicity. Like Brother Stack (BTW, I'm also a native of Spartanburg, SC, let's hang out and chat about this CD when I'm in town again), I've used this CD in my classes and my students have been moved by MLK's brief address ("If you can't run-WALK, and if you can't run-CRAWL, just KEEP MOVING ON!"). Raplh Abernathy's address is also surprisingly good and while the martyred legend Medgar Evers was not a spellbinding speaker, his sincerity comes through. The beauty of this CD is the courage the speakers and singers had in the danger of what they faced. This will inspire listeners to similar courage in the problems they may face today.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sing For Freedom, January 28, 2001

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David R. Stack (Spartanburg, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs (Audio CD)

I simple love this CD and all of the 26 songs. There is not one throw away song or segment on the CD recording. The CD chronicles the modern day civil rights movement through song from 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, to 1960 and the student lead demonstrations in Nashville, Tenn. to the 1963 Birmingham Mass Meetings. The artist are regional and have a wonderful quality to the singing. A must have...... I play this CD to my high school students every year and they are mesmerized. I play the CD in the teacher's lounge and they all want copies. I used some of the songs on the CD in a talk at my local Unitarian Universalist Church and got a standing ovation. I never tire of listening to the richness of the songs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blows your socks off, December 4, 2009

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Steven M. Taylor-rot - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sing For Freedom: The Story Of The Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs (Audio CD)

Great reminder of where we have come from and how we have to keep going on