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Classic protest songs [sound recording] : from Smithsonian Folkways. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2009. Call #: COMPACT DISC FOLK Subjects Protest songs -- United States. Format:  [sound recording] : Description:  1 CD : digital ; 12 cm. Notes:  Selections originally released 1959-2005; track 16 previously unreleased. Program notes by Jeff Place, bibliography, and discography (29 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Sung in English (principally) and Spanish. Contents:  Freedom now chant (mass-meeting participants in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) (:26) -- Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie) (2:37) -- Bourgeois blues (Lead Belly) (2:18) -- Black, brown, and white (Big Bill Broonzy) (2:42) -- Baby, I've been thinking (Janis Ian) (2:41) -- Blowing in the wind (the New World Singers) (2:28) -- This land is your land (Steve Forbert, Jack Hardy, Jill Burkee, and Mark Dann) (4:39) -- Turn, turn, turn (Liz Getz) (3:04) -- As long as the grass will grow (Peter La Farge) (5:07) -- Talking pay TV (Phil Ochs) (2:34) -- Masters of war (the Bergerfolk) (4:07) -- Waist deep in the big muddy (Pete Seeger) (2:57) -- Agent Orange (Peggy Seeger) (3:51) -- Strange fruit (Brother John Sellers) (2:20) -- How can a poor man stand such times and live (New Lost City Ramblers) (3:34) -- I'm going to write the Governor of Georgia (Champion Jack Dupree) (3:13) -- When we make it through (Barbara Dane) (5:25) -- Evicted tenant (Sis Cunningham) (2:06) -- Corrido de Cesar Chavez (Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo) (3:02) -- Gone, gone, gone (Red Shadow) (2:14) -- Spirits of the revolution (Larry Estridge) (5:09) -- We shall overcome (Guy Carawan) (3:40). Production:  Complied by Mark Gustafson and Jeff Place. Performers:  Various performers. Summary:  "War, social injustice, personal plaints, and calls for action have long fueled musical creation and performance. In Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways, Mark Gustafson and Jeff Place tapped the historic Smithsonian audio collections to compile 22 songs favored by leaders of antiwar, civil rights, industrial labor, farm worker, and other struggles to air their grievances. Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Janis Ian, Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Barbara Dane, Guy Carawan, Phil Ochs, and other marquee artists let their voices ring out with calls for peace and justice."--Container. Genre:  Folk music. Other authors:  Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Music CDs COMPACT DISC FOLK Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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