Bookstore - Music CD's
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CANCIONES POR LA CAUSA
By Baldemar Velasquez & Aguila Negra Band
Canciones po la Causa combines Mexican folk music with protest songs and a booklet filled with stories and pictures from the 33-year history of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). It is thus an important document of the FLOC movement, which originated in Northwest Ohio and has since expanded across the region. Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger received an advance copy and reported that the disc is a wonderful listening experience. Music critic for the Toledo Blade David Yonke adds that the disc "has an important story to tell" with music that "cross(es) all borders" and "brings attention to the plight of migrant (farm) workers and what FLOC is doing to help."
Velasquez & Aguila Negra Band, 2000. CD. $20.00 |
CARPETBAG THEATER'S AMERICAN SANKOFA: REMEMBERING 33 YEARS OF MUSIC, THEATRE AND PEOPLE
This CD is rich review of musical pieces from productions of this wonderful community theater company based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Carpetbag has been telling stories of people who have been historically silenced by racism, classism, sexism and ageism since 1969, and this CD provides a small taste of their inspiring work to encourage empowerment and cultural celebration.
CD. $15.00 |
COAL MINING WOMEN
A collection of songs from the Appalachian coalfields. Performed by Sarah Ogan Gunning, Florence Reece, Hazel Dickens, and others.
Produced by Guy and Candie Carawan, 1997.
Reissue from Rounder Records.
CD. $16.00 |
FRUIT OF LABOR CD
The Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble is the cultural arm of the civil rights and worker rights organization, Black Workers for Justice. We, the Fruit of Labor, are celebrating our 20th year of organizing in our community and workplaces! Twenty years of writing songs and creating music from our people’s and co-workers struggles! Twenty years of performing, inspiring, educating, and raising funds for the freedom and workers rights struggles in the South! Our songs are a chronology of people’s movements for social change. Through African-American people’s various music styles of rhythm & blues, gospel, reggae, jazz, folk, work songs, chants, etc., we document working class tradition, history, culture, and legacy. Our music speaks to the unfolding historical challenges of war, women’s oppression, our youth, our history of fighting oppression and racism. It also speaks to the need to continue workplace organizing and build solidarity as an act of necessity not as a charity.
CD. $15.00 |
HOME BREW
From the Carawan Family
The latest recording from the Carawans, a family album which includes traditional songs from the Sea Islands, contemporary songs by Bruce Phillips, Los Lobos, John McCutcheon and others, instrumental dance tunes on banjo, hammer dulcimer and harmonica. Pete Seeger wrote: "the mix of old African-American traditions and European-American traditions works better on this CD than anywhere else I have ever heard, live or recorded."
Flying Fish, CD. $16.00 |
I'M GONNA LET IT SHINE: A GATHERING OF VOICES FOR FREEDOM
produced by Bill Harley
Traditional and new Freedom Songs sung by some of the original voices of the Civil Rights Movement, contemporary singers and students from Roger Williams Middle School, Providence, RI. This album will be of special interest to young people.
CD. $15.00 |
OUR VOICES WILL RISE FOR JUSTICE/NUESTRAS VOCES SE LEVANTAN PARA LA JUSTICIA
By ENLACE
Music has been part of every liberation movement throughout history. You know the songs - "We Shall Overcome," "De Colores," "Joe Hill." The songs on this CD are labor and immigration songs, written by workers in the Mexican and U.S. low-wage labor movements. They tell the stories of factory workers and immigrants—stories of strength, courage, and resistance. These are the voices of our movement, and Our Voices Will Rise for Justice.
CD $15.00
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SING FOR FREEDOM
The story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. A freedom repertoire drawn from six documentaries made between 1960-1964 in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee.
Compiled by Guy and Candie Carawan.
Smithsonian/Folkway Records. CD $16.00 |
SONGS FOR THE MOUNTAINTOP: KENTUCKY MUSICIANS SING OUT AGAINST MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL
From Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
This CD is a collection of songs that speak out against mountaintop removal. "What's important about this collection is that the songs are written by people who have personal experience with living in the heart of the region where mountaintops are being removed...this music is not sung in the voice of some observer - these are the voices of the people who have been directly affected...past, present and future" (Kate Larkin). This CD supports the work of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.
2006. CD. $15.00 |
SPARKLES AND SHINES
By Guy Carawan
Featuring Guy on vocals, guitar, banjo, hammer dulcimer and tin whistle. Accompanied by the lovely voice of Candie Carawan. A compilation of fine folk music. 1974-1990.
Ponder Productions, 1998. CD $16.00 |
TREE OF LIFE/ARBOL DE LA VIDA
By Guy and Candie Carawan
A mixture of traditional and contemporary songs with guitar, banjo, fiddle, hammer dulcimer and harmonica.
CD. $16.00 |
VOICES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: BLACK AMERICAN FREEDOM SONGS 1960-1966
Historic freedom songs drawn from spirituals, gospel, rhythm and blues, chants, blues, and calypso music. Includes SNCC Freedom Singers and activists Fannie Lou Hamer and Betty Mae Fikes. 2-CD set and 40 page booklet includes annotation by Bernice Johnson Reagon and historic photos. Reissue from l980.
Compiled, produced and annotated by Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Smithsonian Folkways, 1997. Double CD. $23.00 |
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