Every Tone a Testimony [sound recording]
date: label: Date
content: 2001
name: label: liner notes
content: Catalotti, Robert
label: performer
content: Hughes, Langston 1902-1967
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content: Dodson, Annie Grace Horn 1904-1975
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content: Brown, Enoch
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content: Skipper, Doretha 1926-
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content: McIver, Lawrence
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content: Amerson, Rich
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content: Hunter, Janie
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content: Tucker, Joech
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content: Dunbar, Scott
label: performer
content: Bontemps, Arna Wendell 1902-1973
label: performer
content: Terry, Lucy
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content: Washington, Dorothy
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content: Wheatley, Phillis 1753-1784
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content: Tubman, Harriet 1820?-1913
label: performer
content: Dee, Ruby
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content: Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883
label: performer
content: Douglass, Frederick 1817?-1895
label: performer
content: Davis, Ossie 1917-2005
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content: West, Kinsey
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content: Remond, Sarah Parker 1826-1887?
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content: Reed, Dock
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content: Hall, Vera 1906-1964
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content: Walker, Margaret 1915-1998
label: author
content: Dunbar, Paul Laurence 1872-1906
label: performer
content: Work, John W (John Wesley) 1901-1967
label: performer
content: Ferguson, Mary
label: performer
content: Washington, Booker T. 1856-1915
label: performer
content: McGhee, Brownie 1915-1996
label: performer
content: Terry, Sonny
label: performer
content: Johnson, Fenton
label: performer
content: Cotten, Elizabeth
label: performer
content: Randolph, Percy
label: performer
content: Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 1862-1931
label: performer
content: Asch, Moses
label: performer
content: DuBois, W.E.B (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963
label: performer
content: Johnson, James Weldon 1871-1938
label: performer
content: Leadbelly 1885-1949
label: performer
content: Cullen, Countee 1903-1946
label: performer
content: Johnson, James P (James Price) 1894-1955
label: performer
content: Robeson, Paul 1898-1976
label: performer
content: McKay, Claude 1890-1948
label: performer
content: Brown, Sterling Allen 1901-1989
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content: Broonzy, Big Bill 1893-1958
label: performer
content: Pierce, Billie 1907-1974
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content: Pierce, De De 1904-1973
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content: Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000
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content: Jackson, David
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content: Nicholas, Big Nick 1922-1997
label: performer
content: Miller, John
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content: Johnson, Juanita
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content: Spann, Otis 1930-1970
label: performer
content: Muddy Waters 1915-1983
label: performer
content: Ribot, Marc
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content: Burke, Solomon
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content: King, Martin Luther Jr. 1929-1968
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content: Seale, Bobby 1936-
label: performer
content: Davis, Angela Y (Angela Yvonne) 1944-
label: performer
content: Fabio, Ronald
label: performer
content: Fabio, Sarah Webster 1928-
label: performer
content: Wallace, Wayne
label: performer
content: Giovanni, Nikki
label: performer
content: Sanchez, Sonia 1934-
label: performer
content: Baraka, Amiri 1934-2014
label: performer
content: Bluiett, Hamiet
label: performer
content: Cortez, Jayne
label: performer
content: Boudreaux, Joseph 1941-
label: performer
content: Reed, Ishmael 1938-
label: Creator
content: Davis, Gary 1896-1972
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content: Arrested Development (Musical group)
label: performer
content: Children of East York School
label: performer
content: Jubilee Singers
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content: Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve
label: performer
content: Gospel Tones (Vocal group)
label: performer
content: Realtones
label: performer
content: Freedom Singers
label: performer
content: Golden Eagles (Musical group)
notes: label: Notes
content: Commercial
label: Notes
content: compiled, annotated and produced by Robert H. Cataliotti
label: Notes
content: Recorded in: Birmingham (Ala.), Albany (Ga.), Washington (D.C.), Texas, New Orleans (La.), Louisiana, Chapel Hill (N.C.), North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, New York, United States.
label: Table of contents
content: The struggle / L. Hughes (0:22) -- Field call / A.G.H. Dodson (1:15) -- Complaint call / E. Brown (0:40) -- Intro and Kneebone Bend / L. McKiver, D. Skipper (2:51) -- Brother Terrapin, slow train to Arkansas / R. Amerson (1:56) -- Jack and Mary and three dogs / J. Hunter (5:53) -- Buck dance / J. Tucker (1:19) -- I'm goin' up north / Children of East York School (1:22) -- Pharaoh's host got lost / L. McKiver (1:32) -- Bars fight / L. Terry (read by A. Bontemps) (1:23) -- Earl of Dartmouth / P. Wheatley (read by D.F. Washington) (0:49) -- I wonder where my brother gone / A.G.H. Dodson (1:17) -- Narrative / H. Tubman (read by D.F. Washington) (0:59) -- Speech at Akron Convention / S. Truth (read by R. Dee) (2:05) -- Singing slaves / F. Douglass (read by O. Davis) (1:03) -- Steal away to Jesus / K. West (1:50) -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / F. Douglass (read by O. Davis) (2:36) -- Why slavery is still rampant / S.P. Parker (read by R. Dee) (1:47) -- Free at last / D. Reed and V.H. Ward (1:33) -- When Malindy sings / P.L. Dunbar (read by M. Walker) (3:48) -- There's a great camp meeting / Fisk Jubilee Singers (2:01) -- Atlanta Exposition address / B.T. Washington (1:16) -- John Henry / B. McGhee and S. Terry (4:03) -- Banjo player / F. Johnson (read by A. Bontemps) (0:44) -- Boatman dance / E. Cotten (1:42) -- Shine / P. Randolph (1:03) -- Chopping in the new ground / Inmates of Ramsay or Retrieve State Farms, TX (1:37) -- Lynching, our national crime / I.B. Wells-Barnett (read by R. Dee) (3:43) -- A recorded autobiography / W.E.B. Du Bois (2:33) -- Listen Lord, a prayer / J.W. Johnson (read by M. Walker) (2:55) -- My heart is fixed / G. Davis (2:04) -- The Titanic / Lead Belly (4:04) -- Heritage / C. Cullen (2:58) -- Jungle drums / J.P. Johnson (2:32). No more auction block / P. Robeson (2:09) -- Negro speaks of rivers / L. Hughes (0:43) -- If we must die / C. McKay (0:57) -- Ma Rainey / S. Brown (2:06) -- Backwater blues / B.B. Broonzy (2:47) -- Married man blues / B. and D.D. Pierce (5:11) -- For my people / M. Walker (5:41) -- Children of the poor, sonnet 2 / G. Brooks (0:47) -- Body and soul / G. Nicholas (3:48) -- How He delivered me / J. Johnson & the Gospel Tones (2:39) -- Long distance call / M. Waters (6:58) -- Cry to me / S. Burke (2:13) -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around / SNCC Freedom Singers (2:31) -- Birmingham 1963 - Keep moving / M.L. King, Jr. (3:42) -- Black Panther Party platform / B. Seale (2:59) -- Interview (excerpt) / A. Davis (1:05) -- Together to the tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" / S.W. Fabio (1:40) -- Nikki-Rosa / N. Giovanni (1:12) -- Liberation/poem / S. Sanchez (0:34) -- Dope / A. Baraka (4:48) -- Village of Brooklyn, Illinois / H. Bluiett (3:30) -- For the poets / J. Cortez (3:56) -- Shotgun Joe / Golden Eagles (5:19) -- St. Louis woman / I. Reed (1:26) -- People everyday / Arrested Development (3:27)
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content: 101 The Struggle / Langston Hughes
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content: 102 Field Call / Annie Grace Horn Dodson
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content: 103 Complaint Call / Enoch Brown
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content: 104 Intro and Knee Bend / Doretha Skipper, Lawrence McIver
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content: 105 Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas / Rich Amerson
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content: 106 Jack and Mary and Three Dogs / Janie Hunter
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content: 107 Buck Dance (excerpt) / Joech Tucker, Scott Dunbar
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content: 108 I'm Goin' Up North / Children of East York School
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content: 109 Pharaoh's Host Got Lost / Lawrence McIver
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content: 110 Bar Fights / Arna Wendell Bontemps, Lucy Terry
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content: 111 Earl of Dartmouth (excerpt) / Dorothy Washington, Phillis Wheatley
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content: 112 I Wonder Where My Brother Gone / Annie Grace Horn Dodson
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content: 113 Narrative (excerpt) / Dorothy Washington, Harriet Tubman
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content: 114 Speech at Akron Convention / Ruby Dee, Sojourner Truth
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content: 115 Singing Slaves / Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis
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content: 116 Steal Away to Jesus / Kinsey West
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content: 117 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpt) / Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis
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content: 118 Why Slvery is Still Rampant (excerpt) / Ruby Dee, Sarah Parker Remond
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content: 119 Free At Last / Dock Reed, Vera Hall
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content: 120 When Malindy Sings / Margaret Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar
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content: 121 There's A Great Camp Meeting / Jubilee Singers, John W. (John Wesley) Work, Mary Ferguson
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content: 122 Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington
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content: 123 John Henry / Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry
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content: 124 Banjo Player / Arna Wendell Bontemps, Fenton Johnson
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content: 125 Boatman Dance / Elizabeth Cotten
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content: 126 Shine / Percy Randolph
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content: 127 Chopping in the New Ground / Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve
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content: 128 Lynching, Our National Crime / Ruby Dee, Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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content: 129 A Recorded Autobiography / Moses Asch, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois
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content: 130 Listen Lord, A Prayer / Margaret Walker, James Weldon Johnson
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content: 131 My Heart is Fixed / Gary Davis
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content: 132 The Titanic / Lead Belly
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content: 133 Heritage / Countee Cullen
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content: 134 Jungle Drums / James P. (James Price) Johnson
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content: 201 No More Auction Block / Paul Robeson
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content: 202 The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes
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content: 203 If We Must Die / Claude McKay
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content: 204 Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown
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content: 205 Backwater Blues / Bill Broonzy
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content: 206 Married Man Blues / Billie Pierce, De De Pierce
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content: 207 For My People / Margaret Walker
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content: 208 The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2 / Gwendolyn Brooks
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content: 209 Body and Soul / David Jackson, Big Nick Nicholas, John Miller
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content: 210 How He Delivered Me / Gospel Tones (Vocal group), Juanita Johnson
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content: 211 Long Distance Calls / Otis Spann, Muddy Waters
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content: 212 Cry To Me / Realtones, Marc Ribot, Solomon Burke
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content: 213 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around / Freedom Singers
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content: 214 Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving / Martin Luther, Jr. King
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content: 215 Black Panther Party Platform / Bobby Seale
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content: 216 Interview (excerpt) / Angela Yvonne Davis
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content: 217 Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" (excerpt) / Ronald Fabio, Sarah Webster Fabio, Wayne Wallace
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content: 218 Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni
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content: 219 liberation/poem / Sonia Sanchez
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content: 220 Dope / Imamu Amiri Baraka
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content: 221 The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 (excerpt) / Hamiet Bluiett
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content: 222 For the Poets / Jayne Cortez
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content: 223 Shotgun Joe / Golden Eagles (Musical group), Joseph Boudreaux
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content: 224 St. Louis Woman / Ishmael Reed
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content: 225 People Everyday / Arrested Development (Musical group)
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
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content: United States
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content: New York
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content: Alabama
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content: Georgia
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content: South Carolina
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content: Mississippi
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content: Tennessee
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content: North Carolina
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content: Chapel Hill (N.C.)
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content: Louisiana
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content: New Orleans (La.)
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content: Texas
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content: Washington (D.C.)
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content: Albany (Ga.)
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content: Birmingham (Ala.)
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content: United States--Northeast
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content: Akron (Ohio)
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content: Atlanta (Ga.)
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topic: label: Topic
content: Spoken word
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content: Folk songs
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content: Folk tales and legends
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content: Buck dancing
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content: Circle games
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content: Shouts
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content: Poetry
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content: Narratives
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content: Speeches, addresses, etc
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content: Spirituals (Songs)
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content: Choral music
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content: Blues (Music)
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content: Cries
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content: Prisoners' songs
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content: Autobiography
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content: Gospel music
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content: Topical songs
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content: Instrumental music
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content: Stride piano
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content: New Orleans jazz
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content: Jazz
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content: Rhythm and blues music
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content: Interviews
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content: Mardi Gras Indians
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content: Rap (Music)
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
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content: African American
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: Smithsonian Folkways.47003
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content: SF-COMM-CD-47003
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content: Musical sound recordings
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content: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in