Every Tone A Testimony- Every Tone A Testimony

This double CD draws upon the collection at the Smithsonian Folkways archive to create a history of African American life and culture in sound- an aural history. Encompassing both the African American oral and literary traditions, these 59 tracks feature an unparalleled assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by historically renowned African American musicians, writers, and activists. The sounds collected here are testimony to the power, creativity, and resilience of Black expressive forms that have received recognition throughout the world.

Tracklist:

1. Struggle, The – Langston Hughes
2. Field Call – Annie Grace Horn Dodson
3. Complaint Call – Enoch Brown
4. Intro and Kneebone Bend – Lawrencs McKiver/Doretha Skipper
5. Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas – Rich Manuel “Rich” Am
6. Jack and Mary and Three Dogs – Mrs. Janie Hunter
7. Buck Dance – Joe Tucker
8. I’m Goin’ up North – Children Of East York School
9. Pharaoh’s Host Got Lost – Lawrencs McKiver
10. Bars Fight – Lucy Terry
11. Earl of Datrmouth – Phillis Wheatley
12. I Wonder Where My Brother Gone – Annie Grace Horn Dodson
13. Narrative – Harriet Tubman
14. Speech at Akron Convention – Sojourner Truth
15. Singing Slaves – Frederick Douglass
16. Steal Away to Jesus – Kinsey West
17. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? – Frederick Douglass
18. Why Slavery Is Still Rampant? – Sarah Parker
19. Free at Last – Dock Read & Vera Hall Ward
20. When Malindy Sings – Paul Laurence Dunbar
21. There’s a Great Camp Meeting – Fisk University Jubilee Singers
22. Atlanta Exposition Address – Booker T. Washington
23. John Henry – Brownie McGhee/Sonny Terry
24. Banjo Player – Fenton Johnson
25. Boatman Dance – Elizabeth Cotten
26. Shine – Percy Randolph
27. Chopping in the New Ground – Inmates Of Ramsey
28. Lynching, Our National Crime – Ida B Wells-Barnett
29. Recorded Autobiography, A – W.E.B. Du Bois
30. Listen Lord, A Prayer – James Weldon Johnson
31. My Heart Is Fixed – Rev. Gary Davis
32. Titanic, The – Leadbelly
33. Heritage – Countee Cullen
34. Jungle Drums – James P. Johnson
35. No More Auction Block – Paul Robeson
36. Negro Speaks of Rivers, The – Langston Hughes
37. If We Must Die – Claude McKay
38. Ma Rainey – Sterling A. Brown
39. Backwater Blues – Big Bill Broonzy
40. Married Man Blues – Billie & De De Pierce
41. For My People – Margaret Walker
42. Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2, The – Gwendolyn Brooks
43. Body and Soul – George Big Nick Nicholas
44. How He Delivered Me – Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones
45. Long Distance Call – Muddy Waters
46. Cry to Me – Solomon Burke
47. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around – The SNCC Freedom Singers
48. Brimingham 1963 (Keep Moving) – Martin Luther King, Jr.
49. Black Panther Party Platform – Bobby Seale
50. Interview (Excerpt) – Angela Davis
51. Together to the Tune of Coltrane’s Equinox – Sarah Webster Fabio
52. Nikki-Rosa – Nikki Giovanni
53. Liberation / Poem – Sonia Sanchez
54. Dope – Amiri Baraka
55. Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059, The – Hamiet Bluiett
56. For the Poets – Jayne Cortez
57. Shotgun Joe – Golden Eagels
58. St. Louis Woman – Ishmael Reed
59. People Everday – Arrested Development