Classic protest songs
Music - 2009
War, social injustice, and calls for action have long fueled the creative musical fire for many passionate artists. Here some of folk's greatest artists are featured in some of music's most powerful songs for change.
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Washington, DC :
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
p2009.
- Language
- English
Spanish - Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Selections originally released 1959-2005; track 16 previously unreleased.
- Physical Description
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
- Production Credits
- Compiled by Mark Gustafson and Jeff Place.
- 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 César Chávez (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).