Bookstore - Songbooks
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SING FOR FREEDOM: THE STORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH ITS SONGS
Compiled and edited by Guy and Candie Carawan.
Foreword by Julian Bond
This is a new edition of a historic collection of freedom songs out of print for a number of years. Sing for Freedom contains sheet music for over one hundred freedom songs — including "We Shall Overcome" and "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" — but this volume is more than just a song book. It contains numerous firsthand reports from participants in the freedom rides, protests, and sit-ins, many of them young students, as well as photographs of movement events. Longtime staff members, the Carawans collected many of the songs at Highlander cultural workshops between 1960 and 1965.
New South Books. Paperback, $21.95. |
AIN'T YOU GOT A RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE? THE PEOPLE OF JOHNS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA -THEIR FACES, THEIR WORDS, THEIR SONGS
Recorded and Edited by Guy & Candie Carawan, Photographs by Robert Yellin & others
Johns Island was the home of Highlander's Citizenship School Program in the late 1950's and the early 1960's. Bringing the story of Johns Island up to 1988, the voices of a younger generation now blend with the songs and stories of an older day. The citizenship schools, catalysts of change throughout the South, have created an active, vocal community. Islanders, who once quietly reached for their rights, now study property law and tax codes, determined to protect their land from resort developers who would in a moment clear away a heritage of strength and beauty.
University of Georgia Press, paperback, 240 pages, with photes, 1989. $29.95 |
RISE UP SINGING
By Peter Blood
This book consists of lyrics, chords, and sources for over 1200 songs which work especially well in group singing. The songs are folksongs, labor songs, freedom songs, contemporary and popular songs, children's songs, ballads, blues, songs from the southern mountains, gospel and religious songs, and campfire favorites. Songs are listed by category and by title, making it easy to use. Since its publication, it has become a standard resource book for countless organizations as well as for individual musicians.
Paperback, $20.00. |
VOICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS
By Guy and Candie Carawan
Voices offers an experience in Appalachian life. It presents in pictures, songs, and interviews, the people who lived through coal mine disasters, union struggles, the war on poverty, and strip mining's ravages, to grow deep roots in their rugged homeland.
Appalachian Studies/Folklore. University of Georgia Press, paperback, 256 pages,1996. $24.95 |
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