Research Catalog

Title

Africans in America.

Publication

Salem, MA : Rykodisc, ℗1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
• Reagon, Toshi.
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Description

3 audio discs (176 min., 70 sec.); 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Africans in America (Television documentary)

Alternative Title

America's journey through slavery

Subjects

• Slavery
• Spirituals (Songs)
• Music
• Songs and music
• United States
• West Africa
• Folk songs, Irish
• Folk music > Africa, West
• Slavery > United States > Songs and music
• Folk songs, English > United States
• Folk music > United States
• African Americans > Music

Genre/Form

• Spirituals (Songs)
• Songs and music.
• Music.

Note

• Consists of original compositions and reconstructed performances of historical works and African-American folk music as featured in Africans in America, a PBS television documentary.
• Lyrics, and program notes by Bernice Johnson Reagon, Michaela Harrison, and others ([112] pages : illustrations) inserted in container.

Credits (note)

• Producer, Bernice Johnson Reagon ; assistant producer Toshi Reagon ; executive producer for WGBH, Orlando Bagwell.

Language (note)

• Principally sung in English.

Contents

Volume 1. Your country (2:09) -- Gabriel's balm (1:57) -- A stór mo chroí (2:16) -- Shabazz (3:10) -- Remember me (4:55) -- Hambone (2:31) -- Middle passage (3:23) -- Ballad call and response (3:48) -- Dialiya (4:40) -- Donal óg (5:10)-- Song of Stono (5:57) -- When Jesus wept (1:45) -- Steal away (3:30) -- Long journey home (3:26) -- Vesey's song (1:49) -- Monticello's lament (2:11) -- Come unto me (2:00) -- Rise freemen rise (1:22) -- Minuet in F major (2:08) -- Shekere (:57) -- Venture's song (3:52) -- Volume 2. Ship of Zion (6:21) -- Boll fever (2:25) -- Green fields of America (2:24) -- Pulse (3:07) -- Nat Turner's prayer (3:58) -- Run Mary run (7:17) -- La d'Héricourt (3:38) -- Ballad of the flying cloud (7:28) -- Donney got a rambling mind (1:52) -- Kneebone (2:34) -- Balm in Gilead (4:16) -- Air from the Spanish barber (1:45) -- Remember me (3:04) -- Troubled (4:47) -- Rhythm on cloth (:47) -- Ranting highlandman (:46) -- Oh if my soul was formed from woe (1:51) -- Jacob's cry (2:16) -- Come unto me (2:50) -- What kind of land (3:33) -- Freedom call (2:21) -- Volume 3. Balm in Gilead (4:02) -- Song in D♭ (2:02) -- Blue Rhumba (8:15) -- I heard the voice of Jesus say (1:13) -- Brandywine quick-step (1:07) -- Mandiacapella (2:13) -- Steal away (6:44) -- Dumala storm (3:09) -- John Brown's body (2:17) -- Coo coo (1:14) -- When Jesus wept (2:15) -- Early my God (3:59) -- Nago (5:35) -- Your country (2:27) -- Ballad in harmony (1:13) -- What kind of land (3:31) -- First time I saw big water (4:18).

Call Number

*LDC 22174

LCCN

014431944420

OCLC

41177900

Title

Africans in America.

Imprint

Salem, MA : Rykodisc, ℗1998.

Playing Time

025710

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

CD audio

Performer

Principally performed by Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon, vocals ; with additional instrumentalists and vocalists.

Credits

Producer, Bernice Johnson Reagon ; assistant producer Toshi Reagon ; executive producer for WGBH, Orlando Bagwell.

Language

Principally sung in English.

Added Author

Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942- Composer. Singer

Reagon, Toshi. Singer

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Added Title

Africans in America (Television documentary)

Other Standard Identifier

014431944420

Publisher No.

RCD 90444/1 Rykodisc

RCD 90444/2 Rykodisc

RCD 90444/3 Rykodisc

Research Call Number

*LDC 22174 Notes on file