Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- Elizabeth Cotten, Volume 3: When I'm Gone
- Artist:
  Elizabeth Cotten
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the mid-1940s, Elizabeth Cotten (1895-1987) chanced to meet composer Ruth Crawford Seeger at a department store. They began to talk, and Seeger soon hired Cotten to work in the Seeger household.... more
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- Moving Makes Me Magic
- Artist:
  Yvonne C. Johnson
- Genre: Children's, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Together to the Tune of Coltrane's Equinox
- Artist:
  Sarah Webster Fabio
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This collection of poems by Sarah Webster Fabio and Deniake is an example of Fabio's affinity for combining poetry with music. In this blues-inspired album, Fabio and her children's band Don't Fight... more
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- Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Artist:
  Fish Jubilee Singers
- Genre: Gospel, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Credited with introducing the African-American spiritual to the wider world, The Fisk Jubilee Singers made their debut in Cincinnati in 1871. Since then, the ensemble has drawn a host of wonderful... more
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- Songs of the American Negro Slaves
- Artist:
  Michel LaRue
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- The Music of Capoeira: Mestre Acordeon
- Artist:
  Mestre Acordeon
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Capoeira is a unique Brazilian art form with African roots, combining movement, music and philosophy. The essence of capoeira is a graceful, flowing game played by two people inside a circle called... more
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- Freedom Songs: Selma / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This documentary recording chronicles civil rights protesters singing during a march from Selma, Alabama, to the State Capitol in Montgomery, to demand fair access to voting registration. The songs... more
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- Huey Newton Speaks
- Artist:
  Huey P. Newton
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Huey P. Newton, one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, was arrested in the late 1960s on charges of shooting a police officer. In this 1970 interview recorded in his prison cell,... more
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- Baptist Shouts and Gospel Songs
- Artist:
  Brother John Sellers
- Genre: Gospel, African
- Label: Monitor Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Mississippi-born blues and gospel singer John Sellers performs 12 soulful tracks on this 1959 Monitor release. Gospel songwriter Thomas Dorsey explains in the liner notes that "gospel songs bring... more
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- I Sing Because I'm Happy
- Artist:
  Mahalia Jackson
- Genre: Gospel, African
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Complements Jules Schwerin, the Life I Sing About: Mahalia Jackson, Talking and Singing the Gospel, Oxford University Press, 1992. Schwerin's interviews with Mahalia Jackson in the 1950s include... more
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- Field to Factory - Voices of the Great Migration
- Artist:
  Spencer Crew
- Genre: International, African
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- An audio documentary about the African-Americans who migrated from the rural South to the urban North between 1915 and 1951. These Americans reminisce and tell their own stories. Produced by David... more
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- The Story of Jazz
- Artist:
  Langston Hughes
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Narrated by Langston Hughes, The Story of Jazz is a concise history of jazz beginning with Drums of the Yoruba, from Nigeria, and continuing to the post-WWII era of be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie's... more
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- More Music Time and Stories
- Artist:
  Charity Bailey
- Genre: Children's, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Innovative Rhythmic and Tonal Textures
- Artist:
  Bilal Abdurahman
- Genre: Children's, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- The Glory of Negro History
- Artist:
  Langston Hughes
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In this collection of prose and song, Langston Hughes narrates the history of the African-American people. Beginning with the struggles associated with slavery and punctuated with African chants and... more
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- Soul Ain't Soul Is: Poems By Sarah Webster Fabio
- Artist:
  Sarah Webster Fabio
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Each poem in this collection by Sarah Webster Fabio was carefully selected from a ten-year period in her life which she describes as her "mature years." During this time, Fabio was focused on the... more
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- Jujus Alchemy of the Blues
- Artist:
  Sarah Webster Fabio
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- About Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues, Fabio expresses: I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich... more
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- Langston Hughes' Jericho-Jim Crow
- Artist:
  Hugh E. Porter
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jericho-Jim Crow by Langston Hughes is a musical production that focuses on themes from the civil rights movement and features music significant to the same period. Performers include former cast... more
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- Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years
- Artist:
  Arna Bontemps
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. is the aural complement to "The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949," edited by Langston Hughes along with Arna Bontemps - who reads the selections heard on this... more
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- Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
- Artist:
  Nikki Giovanni
- Genre: Poetry, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Those who have gone before and those who are yet to be birthed - it is to these that we owe our legacies. I am hopeful we are at least as strong as our foreparents and I am confident we will be as... more
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- God's Trombones By James Weldon Johnson
- Artist:
  Bryce Bond
- Genre: Spoken, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Serving as Visiting Professor of Creative Literature at NYU and working as an author of various published works throughout his career, James Weldon Johnson was an artist as well as an activist for... more
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- Drums of Passion: The Beat
- Artist:
  Babatunde Olatunji
- Genre: International, African
- Label: Mickey Hart Collect
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Repressing of this installment in the Mickey Hart Collection, a World Music series that the Grateful Dead drummer curated which incorporated his solo projects, other artists productions, and... more
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- Bernice Reagon; Folk Songs: The South
- Artist:
  Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Reagon writes, "My history was wrapped carefully for me by my fore-parents in the songs of the church, the work fields, and the blues. Ever since this discovery I've been trying to find myself, using... more
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- South 1: Country Brass / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The fieldwork for this album sought to explore sources that would lead listeners back to the decades between the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 and 1900. The collector, Frederick Ramsey, Jr..,... more
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- South 10: Been Here Gone / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: Folk, African
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- On this album, Frederic Ramsey, Jr.. presents an overview of the material introduced in previous volumes of the Music from the South series. He organizes this compilation into two categories-"Sounds... more
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