Song Itinerary Racism and Slavery in the USA
Uomo nero
Stokely Carmichael, leader del Black Power
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Contributed by Alberto Scotti 2025/3/30 - 19:28
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA, War in Viet Nam as seen from the U.S.
Chanson italienne – Uomo nero – I Cachi d'Aspa – 1968
HOMME NOIR
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Contributed by Marco Valdo M.I. 2025/4/1 - 15:31
Compositor del Año
(2020)
“COMPOSITOR DEL AÑO” se trata de una canción de Bad Bunny lanzada sin un previo aviso por su cuenta de SoundCloud.
Benito comienza la canción relatando su superioridad dentro de la industria musical, hasta que sufre un cambio de temática para comenzar a protestar sobre diversos hechos ocurridos en el mundo. Durante el resto de la canción Bad Bunny afronta temas como el racismo, el gobierno de Puerto Rico y la religión.
El titulo y parte final de la canción se debe a las criticas hacia Bad Bunny tras recibir el premio a Compositor del Año en los Premios ASCAP. Partiendo de esto, Benito deja en claro que pone por encima las problemáticas mundiales que su premio.
“COMPOSITOR DEL AÑO” se trata de una canción de Bad Bunny lanzada sin un previo aviso por su cuenta de SoundCloud.
Benito comienza la canción relatando su superioridad dentro de la industria musical, hasta que sufre un cambio de temática para comenzar a protestar sobre diversos hechos ocurridos en el mundo. Durante el resto de la canción Bad Bunny afronta temas como el racismo, el gobierno de Puerto Rico y la religión.
El titulo y parte final de la canción se debe a las criticas hacia Bad Bunny tras recibir el premio a Compositor del Año en los Premios ASCAP. Partiendo de esto, Benito deja en claro que pone por encima las problemáticas mundiales que su premio.
Contributed by Valentina 2025/2/21 - 22:48
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Anonymous
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I SEE
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Contributed by Pluck 2025/2/9 - 21:54
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Anonymous
Album: " Louis and The Good Book "
Louis Armstrong with the Sy Oliver Choir and The All Stars - 1958
Writers: Sy Oliver & Traditional
Louis Armstrong with the Sy Oliver Choir and The All Stars - 1958
Writers: Sy Oliver & Traditional
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
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Contributed by Pluck 2025/2/9 - 20:01
Man With No Name
In realtà "White Jesus Black Problems" andrebbe contribuito per intero sulla CCG/AWS...
Xavier Dphrepaulezz, in arte Fantastic Negrito, ha scritto un concept album dove la descrizione della realtà attuale si incrocia con la storia di una sua antenata, una serva di origine scozzese di nome Elizabeth Gallimore che nella Virginia di metà '700 si innamora e convive con uno schiavo negro, il cui nome è rimasto sconosciuto (Fantastic Negrito lo battezza pertanto Grandfather Courage). Per questo la coppia venne perseguita dalla giustizia, che non ammetteva i matrimoni misti... Non si sa cosa abbiano passato, ma ebbero comunque una discendenza, fino allo Xavier dall'impronunciabile cognome.
Fantastic Negrito ha dedicato alla storia anche un video di 40' ed una versione acustica dell'album dedicata proprio al suo sconosciuto avo, "Grandfather Courage".
Cercherò nei prossimi giorni di selezionare le canzoni migliori e più inerenti alle CCG/AWS.
Grandissimo artista, bellissima storia e bellissima musica.
Xavier Dphrepaulezz, in arte Fantastic Negrito, ha scritto un concept album dove la descrizione della realtà attuale si incrocia con la storia di una sua antenata, una serva di origine scozzese di nome Elizabeth Gallimore che nella Virginia di metà '700 si innamora e convive con uno schiavo negro, il cui nome è rimasto sconosciuto (Fantastic Negrito lo battezza pertanto Grandfather Courage). Per questo la coppia venne perseguita dalla giustizia, che non ammetteva i matrimoni misti... Non si sa cosa abbiano passato, ma ebbero comunque una discendenza, fino allo Xavier dall'impronunciabile cognome.
Fantastic Negrito ha dedicato alla storia anche un video di 40' ed una versione acustica dell'album dedicata proprio al suo sconosciuto avo, "Grandfather Courage".
Cercherò nei prossimi giorni di selezionare le canzoni migliori e più inerenti alle CCG/AWS.
Grandissimo artista, bellissima storia e bellissima musica.
2025/2/7 - 08:43
Letter to the President
Album: Still I Rise (1999)
This angry tirade was from the 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) & The Outlawz 1999 album, Still I Rise. It was 2Pac’s third posthumous album which was released.
This song is a no holds barred lyrical attack on then President Bill Clinton, attacking his ineffectiveness in helping poverty stricken black communities. As far as protest songs go, it is pure anger, and it points to the fact that if the situation goes unchecked things will just keep getting worse.
10 Protest Songs About the Presidents of the USA – The Ongoing History of Protest Music
This angry tirade was from the 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) & The Outlawz 1999 album, Still I Rise. It was 2Pac’s third posthumous album which was released.
This song is a no holds barred lyrical attack on then President Bill Clinton, attacking his ineffectiveness in helping poverty stricken black communities. As far as protest songs go, it is pure anger, and it points to the fact that if the situation goes unchecked things will just keep getting worse.
10 Protest Songs About the Presidents of the USA – The Ongoing History of Protest Music
[Intro: E.D.I Mean & 2Pac]
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2025/1/23 - 18:14
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Theme for English B
Theme for English B - by Langston Hughes - 1951
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press (BkMk Press), 2002)
“Theme for English B” - Introduction
• “Theme for English B” was published by the American poet Langston Hughes in 1951, toward the end of Hughes’s career. The poem is a dramatic monologue written in the voice of a twenty-two-year-old black college student at Columbia University in New York City. His professor gives an apparently simple assignment: to write one page that is “true” to himself. But for the speaker, this assignment raises complicated questions about race, identity, and belonging. As he puzzles through these difficult questions, the speaker arrives at a powerful argument against American racism: white people and black people are not (and should not be) separate or distinct. Instead, they are “part” of each other.
Theme for English B Summary & Analysis
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (University of Missouri Press (BkMk Press), 2002)
“Theme for English B” - Introduction
• “Theme for English B” was published by the American poet Langston Hughes in 1951, toward the end of Hughes’s career. The poem is a dramatic monologue written in the voice of a twenty-two-year-old black college student at Columbia University in New York City. His professor gives an apparently simple assignment: to write one page that is “true” to himself. But for the speaker, this assignment raises complicated questions about race, identity, and belonging. As he puzzles through these difficult questions, the speaker arrives at a powerful argument against American racism: white people and black people are not (and should not be) separate or distinct. Instead, they are “part” of each other.
Theme for English B Summary & Analysis
The instructor said,
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Contributed by Pluck 2025/1/4 - 00:01
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Nat Turner / The Gainin' Ground / Virginia 1831
Anonymous
With the tightening of all restrictions on them (the slaves) after the rebellion, any singing about Nat Turner had to be well disguised .A song about him has survived, in which there was humorous satire on the masters,who allowed it as kings once allowed jokes on themselves by court fools and jesters, mixed with a pun on Nat Turner’s name and veiled references to revolution and change.
- First discovered as "The Gainin’ Ground" in Pete Seeger Where Have All the Flowers Gone pg. 236
- later discovered it in John Greenway American Folksongs of Protest pg. 92-93
-and Russell Ames, The Story of American Folk Song, 1955, p.151-152. Ames contributes an additional verse in Story of American Folksong, p. 151. It appears with the heading “Virginia 1831” below the three main verses in the lyrics.
all three attribute discovery of the song to Lawrence Gellert
This is confirmed by Gellert, published... (Continues)
- First discovered as "The Gainin’ Ground" in Pete Seeger Where Have All the Flowers Gone pg. 236
- later discovered it in John Greenway American Folksongs of Protest pg. 92-93
-and Russell Ames, The Story of American Folk Song, 1955, p.151-152. Ames contributes an additional verse in Story of American Folksong, p. 151. It appears with the heading “Virginia 1831” below the three main verses in the lyrics.
all three attribute discovery of the song to Lawrence Gellert
This is confirmed by Gellert, published... (Continues)
You mought be rich as cream,
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Contributed by Dq82 2024/12/6 - 18:09
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Notes From Underground
2010
Chapter Of Night
Chapter Of Night is a retrospective of the "Great Divide" known as The Civil War which took place in America between April 12, 1861 and April 14, 1865.
The War pitted the Northern Industrial society with its crowded immigrant poulations stretching the boundaries westward into new territories and the static Southern Aggrarian life of Plantations and slave labour. It became clear that the anathema of Slavery could not continue.
Two worlds colliding with a winner take all outcome.
The South had 18,000 factories to the North's 100,000. The population of The South was 10 million, 3 million which were slaves.
This CD does not villify the vanquished nor praise the victor. It merely tells stories of the struggles and courage of this most terrible tragedy.
It brings into sharp focus the need for critical thinking in order to avoid history's mistakes and prevent the repeat... (Continues)
Chapter Of Night
Chapter Of Night is a retrospective of the "Great Divide" known as The Civil War which took place in America between April 12, 1861 and April 14, 1865.
The War pitted the Northern Industrial society with its crowded immigrant poulations stretching the boundaries westward into new territories and the static Southern Aggrarian life of Plantations and slave labour. It became clear that the anathema of Slavery could not continue.
Two worlds colliding with a winner take all outcome.
The South had 18,000 factories to the North's 100,000. The population of The South was 10 million, 3 million which were slaves.
This CD does not villify the vanquished nor praise the victor. It merely tells stories of the struggles and courage of this most terrible tragedy.
It brings into sharp focus the need for critical thinking in order to avoid history's mistakes and prevent the repeat... (Continues)
for 20 long years been tied to a whippin' post (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/12/6 - 17:31
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Old Man Brown
2010
Chapter Of Night
Chapter Of Night is a retrospective of the "Great Divide" known as The Civil War which took place in America between April 12, 1861 and April 14, 1865.
The War pitted the Northern Industrial society with its crowded immigrant poulations stretching the boundaries westward into new territories and the static Southern Aggrarian life of Plantations and slave labour. It became clear that the anathema of Slavery could not continue.
Two worlds colliding with a winner take all outcome.
The South had 18,000 factories to the North's 100,000. The population of The South was 10 million, 3 million which were slaves.
This CD does not villify the vanquished nor praise the victor. It merely tells stories of the struggles and courage of this most terrible tragedy.
It brings into sharp focus the need for critical thinking in order to avoid history's mistakes and prevent the repeat... (Continues)
Chapter Of Night
Chapter Of Night is a retrospective of the "Great Divide" known as The Civil War which took place in America between April 12, 1861 and April 14, 1865.
The War pitted the Northern Industrial society with its crowded immigrant poulations stretching the boundaries westward into new territories and the static Southern Aggrarian life of Plantations and slave labour. It became clear that the anathema of Slavery could not continue.
Two worlds colliding with a winner take all outcome.
The South had 18,000 factories to the North's 100,000. The population of The South was 10 million, 3 million which were slaves.
This CD does not villify the vanquished nor praise the victor. It merely tells stories of the struggles and courage of this most terrible tragedy.
It brings into sharp focus the need for critical thinking in order to avoid history's mistakes and prevent the repeat... (Continues)
His conscience was a searing (Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2024/12/6 - 17:27
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
The Ballad of Nat Turner
Nathaniel Turner, noto come Nat Turner (Contea di Southampton, 2 ottobre 1800 – Courtland, 11 novembre 1831), è stato un rivoluzionario statunitense che guidò la cosiddetta rivolta degli schiavi di Nat Turner, scoppiata nella Contea di Southampton in Virginia nell'agosto 1831.
Si vedano anche
The Ballad of Nat Turner - Nat Turner - The Ballad of Nat Turner - Nat Turner / The Gainin' Ground / Virginia 1831 - Tribute to a Slave
Si vedano anche
The Ballad of Nat Turner - Nat Turner - The Ballad of Nat Turner - Nat Turner / The Gainin' Ground / Virginia 1831 - Tribute to a Slave
in a cold dark dirty bunkhouse stood the holy man
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Contributed by Dq82 2024/12/6 - 16:59
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Nat Turner
2007
Feast Or Famine 2.0
Nat Turner, lo schiavo-profeta che mise a ferro e fuoco la Virginia
Nell’agosto del 1831, la rivolta guidata da Nat Turner in Virginia segnò un momento decisivo nella lotta contro la schiavitù negli Stati Uniti. Questo evento non solo rappresenta un capitolo fondamentale nella resistenza contro l’oppressione ma solleva anche questioni complesse riguardanti l’interpretazione storica e la memoria collettiva. Attraverso l’esame di una varietà di fonti e prospettive, questo articolo mira a offrire un’analisi equilibrata della rivolta, esplorando le dinamiche, le motivazioni e le conseguenze di questo evento.
IL CONTESTO STORICO
Lo schiavismo rappresentava la spina dorsale economica e sociale del Sud degli Stati Uniti fino alla guerra di secessione. Questo sistema, basato sulla privazione della libertà e sulla coercizione lavorativa degli afroamericani, era giustificato... (Continues)
Feast Or Famine 2.0
Nat Turner, lo schiavo-profeta che mise a ferro e fuoco la Virginia
Nell’agosto del 1831, la rivolta guidata da Nat Turner in Virginia segnò un momento decisivo nella lotta contro la schiavitù negli Stati Uniti. Questo evento non solo rappresenta un capitolo fondamentale nella resistenza contro l’oppressione ma solleva anche questioni complesse riguardanti l’interpretazione storica e la memoria collettiva. Attraverso l’esame di una varietà di fonti e prospettive, questo articolo mira a offrire un’analisi equilibrata della rivolta, esplorando le dinamiche, le motivazioni e le conseguenze di questo evento.
IL CONTESTO STORICO
Lo schiavismo rappresentava la spina dorsale economica e sociale del Sud degli Stati Uniti fino alla guerra di secessione. Questo sistema, basato sulla privazione della libertà e sulla coercizione lavorativa degli afroamericani, era giustificato... (Continues)
Here I stand, a man not free
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Contributed by Dq82 2024/12/6 - 16:39
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
John Brown's Body
Anonymous
Nella versione di Milva, credo che
"oh Dio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò,"
Sia in realtà
"odio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò"
"oh Dio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò,"
Sia in realtà
"odio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò"
hai perfettamente ragione, correggiamo.
Alberto Scotti 2024/11/12 - 02:16
The Price of the Ticket
(2024)
Album: No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin
Meshell Ndegeocello ha pubblicato un ricco album dedicato a James Baldwin, grande scrittore e intellettuale afroamericano in prima linea nelle battaglie per i diritti di tutte le minoranze.
Ne parla in maniera estesa questa settimana la bravissima Silvia Boschero nel programma Moby Dick su Radio Due.
Album: No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin
Meshell Ndegeocello ha pubblicato un ricco album dedicato a James Baldwin, grande scrittore e intellettuale afroamericano in prima linea nelle battaglie per i diritti di tutte le minoranze.
Ne parla in maniera estesa questa settimana la bravissima Silvia Boschero nel programma Moby Dick su Radio Due.
I'm just walkin'
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Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2024/10/31 - 10:08
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Blind Willie McTell
Nessuno canta il blues come Blind Willie McTell
by Andrea Plazzi - 2010
"Il fascino di una canzone come Blind Willie McTell va sicuramente molto al di là del suo (assoluto) valore musicale, e tocca evidentemente corde profonde. Ma anche limitandoci al più immediato (si fa per dire) fascino intellettuale, i motivi evidenti d’interesse non mancano.
Per esempio il testo sofisticato ma mai ermetico o astratto, che procede per lampi e immagini, tracciando uno scenario di vivezza impressionante e potenza visionaria, in cui si intrecciano i fantasmi della coscienza di un paese, il senso di colpa dell’uomo bianco e il rispetto reverente per la Grande Anima del Blues alimentata dal dolore e dalla sofferenza. Culminante in un senso di consapevolezza fatale e definitivo: nessuno canta il blues come Blind Willie McTell".
by Andrea Plazzi - 2010
"Il fascino di una canzone come Blind Willie McTell va sicuramente molto al di là del suo (assoluto) valore musicale, e tocca evidentemente corde profonde. Ma anche limitandoci al più immediato (si fa per dire) fascino intellettuale, i motivi evidenti d’interesse non mancano.
Per esempio il testo sofisticato ma mai ermetico o astratto, che procede per lampi e immagini, tracciando uno scenario di vivezza impressionante e potenza visionaria, in cui si intrecciano i fantasmi della coscienza di un paese, il senso di colpa dell’uomo bianco e il rispetto reverente per la Grande Anima del Blues alimentata dal dolore e dalla sofferenza. Culminante in un senso di consapevolezza fatale e definitivo: nessuno canta il blues come Blind Willie McTell".
Pluck 2024/9/9 - 11:27
Hard Times
featuring Black Thought
dall'album Wake Up! (2010)
dall'album Wake Up! (2010)
HARD TIMES
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2024/9/20 - 22:57
The Wayfaring Stranger [Libby Prison Hymn]
Anonymous
![The Wayfaring Stranger [Libby Prison Hymn]](img/upl/lossy-page1-1250px-Virginia2C_Richmond2C_Libby_Prison_-_NARA_-_533362.tif.jpg)
[XIX sec.]
Lyrics and music /Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
anonimo
Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
1. Joan Baez
Album : Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2. Paul Robeson
Album : The Power And The Glory
3. Pete Seeger
Album : Wayfaring Stranger
4. Johnny Cash
Album : American III: Solitary Man
5. Libby Prison Minstrels
6. Burl Ives
Album : The Wayfaring Stranger
7. Jos Slovick
OST: 1917
E’ una canzone folk e anche un gospel del XIX secolo. Fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1858 nella raccolta The Christian songster : a collection of hymns and spiritual songs, usually sung at camp, prayer, and social meetings, and revivals of religion ; designed for all denominations a cura di di Joseph Bever. Figura al n. 23 della raccolta, a pag. 34. Il testo si discosta in modo significativo dalle versioni diffuse in seguito. Anche il... (Continues)
Lyrics and music /Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
anonimo
Performed by / Interpreti / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
1. Joan Baez
Album : Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2. Paul Robeson
Album : The Power And The Glory
3. Pete Seeger
Album : Wayfaring Stranger
4. Johnny Cash
Album : American III: Solitary Man
5. Libby Prison Minstrels
6. Burl Ives
Album : The Wayfaring Stranger
7. Jos Slovick
OST: 1917
E’ una canzone folk e anche un gospel del XIX secolo. Fu pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1858 nella raccolta The Christian songster : a collection of hymns and spiritual songs, usually sung at camp, prayer, and social meetings, and revivals of religion ; designed for all denominations a cura di di Joseph Bever. Figura al n. 23 della raccolta, a pag. 34. Il testo si discosta in modo significativo dalle versioni diffuse in seguito. Anche il... (Continues)
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
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Contributed by Riccardo Gullotta 2024/7/10 - 11:32
Song Itineraries:
From World Jails, Racism and Slavery in the USA
Down Rodeo
(1996)
Album: Evil Empire
Rodeo Drive è la strada dello shopping di Beverly Hills,
Album: Evil Empire
Rodeo Drive è la strada dello shopping di Beverly Hills,
“Down Rodeo” was a promotional single by American rock band Rage Against the Machine. The song was intended as the third single from their Evil Empire album, although a domestic single was never released.
The song addresses social inequality between the rich and poor of America, and the simmering class warfare that existed in the band’s home city of Los Angeles following the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. “Down Rodeo” was written just three years after six days of riots were sparked by police violence against minorities in the city. The full lyric must be put into context of the time period and the beating of Rodney King to be understood: “So now I’m rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun, These people ain’t seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one”
Genius
The song addresses social inequality between the rich and poor of America, and the simmering class warfare that existed in the band’s home city of Los Angeles following the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. “Down Rodeo” was written just three years after six days of riots were sparked by police violence against minorities in the city. The full lyric must be put into context of the time period and the beating of Rodney King to be understood: “So now I’m rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun, These people ain’t seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one”
Genius
Yeah, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun
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Contributed by lucone 2024/5/25 - 23:29
The Story of O.J.
[2017]
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel: Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z)
Album: 4:44
In the summer of 2017, Jay-Z dropped his thirteenth studio album 4:44 to near-rapturous fan reception and critical praise. The project was Jay’s most vulnerable and intimate to date, with the title track famously confirming allegations of infidelity mentioned on his wife Beyoncé’s 2016 opus Lemonade. However, LP standout track “The Story Of O.J.” was less personal and more societal, as the Jigga Man addressed racism and stereotypes within the black community with his signature incisiveness.
“The Story Of O.J.” features lyrics referencing infamous figure O.J. Simpson and his alleged belief that his wealth and influence transcended his race. “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” is a line rumored to have been uttered by Simpson in an interview, and it was quoted in the Emmy-winning... (Continues)
Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel: Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z)
Album: 4:44
In the summer of 2017, Jay-Z dropped his thirteenth studio album 4:44 to near-rapturous fan reception and critical praise. The project was Jay’s most vulnerable and intimate to date, with the title track famously confirming allegations of infidelity mentioned on his wife Beyoncé’s 2016 opus Lemonade. However, LP standout track “The Story Of O.J.” was less personal and more societal, as the Jigga Man addressed racism and stereotypes within the black community with his signature incisiveness.
“The Story Of O.J.” features lyrics referencing infamous figure O.J. Simpson and his alleged belief that his wealth and influence transcended his race. “I’m not black, I’m O.J.” is a line rumored to have been uttered by Simpson in an interview, and it was quoted in the Emmy-winning... (Continues)
Skin is, skin is
(Continues)
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2024/4/20 - 03:23
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Georgia Chain Gang
Guitar Nubbit
Guitar Nubbit - Georgia Chain Gang -1962
Transcription: Jürgen Henning (Blues Power Magazin 2 (1993), no. 3, p. 19)
Transcription: Jürgen Henning (Blues Power Magazin 2 (1993), no. 3, p. 19)
Alvin Hankerson (November 23, 1923 – June 30, 1995), better known as Guitar Nubbit, was an American blues guitarist and singer. His most notable song was "Georgia Chain Gang", which was originally released in 1962 as a single on Bluestown Records. - Wikipedia
I Was Way Down in Georgia,
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Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/18 - 18:24
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Mr.Tyree
Anonymous
Testo trascritto dalla presentazione del video citato
Mr. Tyree
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Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/17 - 17:25
I Am Sold and Going to Georgia
Anonymous
Library of Congress, Archive of AmericanFolk Song, WPA Collection.
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia University Pennsylvania Press 1953
p. 95-96
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia University Pennsylvania Press 1953
p. 95-96
This song is usually sung by the chained gangs of slaves who are on their way, being driven from Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky, to the more southern states for sale. The last line of each verse is the chorus, and gives a most impressive effect when sung—as it often is— by 60 or 150 voices echoing the plaintive grief of their hearts. This last line is intended as an appeal to all who have it in their power to aid in bringing about the jubilee of emancipation. -J. W. C. Pennington, D.D. Despite Dr. Pennington's contemporary affidavit that this is a Negro song, most observers will agree that its white origin is transparent; but it is worth including, if only for Dr. Pennington's intriguing phrase, "sung ... by 60 or 150 voices."
O! When shall we poor souls be free?
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Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/15 - 17:21
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
I Want to Go Home
Anonymous
Da : Slave Songs of the United States.
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. - Part 1, p.46 , #61
William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
[Verse 7 was added after the Emancipation Proclamation.--J. S. R.]
da: William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. - Part 1, p.46 , #61
William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
[Verse 7 was added after the Emancipation Proclamation.--J. S. R.]
da: William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
Dere's no rain to wet you.
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Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/11 - 17:10
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
My Father, How Long ?
Anonymous
My Father, How Long ? ( Traditional )
Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
My Father, How Long? / We’ll Soon Be Free.
Two versions of the same song. First in TW Higginson* Army Life In A Black Regiment (pg. 169 XXXIV)
[For singing this “the negroes had been put in jail in Georgetown, S.C., at the outbreak of the Rebellion. ‘We’ll soon be free’ was too dangerous an assertion, and though the chant was an old one, it was no doubt sung with redoubled emphasis during the new events. ‘De Lord will call us home’ was evidently thought to be a symbolical verse; for, as a little drummer boy explained it to me, showing all his white teeth as he sat in the moonlight by the door of my tent, ‘Dey tink de Lord mean for say de Yankees.’”——T.W.H.]
second version, Slaves Songs of the United States, section IV., #112.
I made a composite lyric; music is based on that provided in Slave Songs... (Continues)
Berea Songs of Slavery and Emancipation Ensemble
My Father, How Long? / We’ll Soon Be Free.
Two versions of the same song. First in TW Higginson* Army Life In A Black Regiment (pg. 169 XXXIV)
[For singing this “the negroes had been put in jail in Georgetown, S.C., at the outbreak of the Rebellion. ‘We’ll soon be free’ was too dangerous an assertion, and though the chant was an old one, it was no doubt sung with redoubled emphasis during the new events. ‘De Lord will call us home’ was evidently thought to be a symbolical verse; for, as a little drummer boy explained it to me, showing all his white teeth as he sat in the moonlight by the door of my tent, ‘Dey tink de Lord mean for say de Yankees.’”——T.W.H.]
second version, Slaves Songs of the United States, section IV., #112.
I made a composite lyric; music is based on that provided in Slave Songs... (Continues)
My father, how long,
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/8 - 21:31
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Roll, Jordan, Roll
Anonymous
Roll, Jordan, Roll ( Traditional )
The Golden Gate Quartet - 1960
The Golden Gate Quartet - 1960
Well, now roll Jordan, roll
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/28 - 18:59
Ameriican Requiem
(2024)
Album: Cowboy Carter
L'album è la seconda parte di una trilogia inaugurata con Renaissance del 2022. In questo album Beyoncé coraggiosamente si arrischia in un’operazione di riappropriazione culturale del country, tradizionalmente visto come musica bianca e di stampo conservatore.
Ma Beyoncé è comunque una donna del sud degli Stati Uniti e il country fa parte delle sue radici quanto la musica nera, e in questo album riesce a mettere insieme le due cose in maniera a volte sorprendente.
La traccia di apertura Ameriican Requiem (la doppia i è un riferimento all'atto II della trilogia) è un vero proprio requiem per il sogno americano, per tutte le idee di libertà e di uguaglianza tradite nel corso della storia, il funerale di una società libera dall'odio e dalla discriminazione ancora molto lontana dal realizzarsi.
L'album continua con Blackbiird (anche qui con la doppia i), cover della canzone scritta da Paul McCartney per i Beatles e dedicata a tutte le donne nere che lottano per liberarsi.
Album: Cowboy Carter
L'album è la seconda parte di una trilogia inaugurata con Renaissance del 2022. In questo album Beyoncé coraggiosamente si arrischia in un’operazione di riappropriazione culturale del country, tradizionalmente visto come musica bianca e di stampo conservatore.
Ma Beyoncé è comunque una donna del sud degli Stati Uniti e il country fa parte delle sue radici quanto la musica nera, e in questo album riesce a mettere insieme le due cose in maniera a volte sorprendente.
La traccia di apertura Ameriican Requiem (la doppia i è un riferimento all'atto II della trilogia) è un vero proprio requiem per il sogno americano, per tutte le idee di libertà e di uguaglianza tradite nel corso della storia, il funerale di una società libera dall'odio e dalla discriminazione ancora molto lontana dal realizzarsi.
L'album continua con Blackbiird (anche qui con la doppia i), cover della canzone scritta da Paul McCartney per i Beatles e dedicata a tutte le donne nere che lottano per liberarsi.
Nothin' really ends
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2024/4/1 - 23:17
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Anonymous
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long (Traditional)
Testo e nota da Azizi Powell.
This comedic song is about a preacher (minister) visiting people on Sunday (when it was common to have fried chicken for dinner.) The "pickin cotton all day long" chorus doesn't have anything to do with the preacher and chicken verses.
Traccia audio e nota da :
Prison Worksongs Recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary,Angola,La,by Dr. Harry Oster
ARHOOLIE CD 448
© &® 1959 & 1997 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long sung by two sisters, Creola & Ceola Scott who were very religious and not particularly fond of this type of secular material.. ( Dr. Harry Oster 1959 )
This comedic song is about a preacher (minister) visiting people on Sunday (when it was common to have fried chicken for dinner.) The "pickin cotton all day long" chorus doesn't have anything to do with the preacher and chicken verses.
Traccia audio e nota da :
Prison Worksongs Recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary,Angola,La,by Dr. Harry Oster
ARHOOLIE CD 448
© &® 1959 & 1997 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long sung by two sisters, Creola & Ceola Scott who were very religious and not particularly fond of this type of secular material.. ( Dr. Harry Oster 1959 )
Pickin’ cotton ,cotton pickin’ all day long,
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/27 - 12:22
'Cause I'm a Nigger
Anonymous
da
Lawrence Gellert, “Negro Songs of Protest”
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936
Lawrence Gellert, “Negro Songs of Protest”
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936
You take mah labor
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/26 - 17:15
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta
Anonymous
Carlos.
Joaquin era mexicano, quien sino iba a pelear sino es por su tierra. Los chilenos son de apropiarse de cosas que no les pertenecen. Que verguenza Neruda!
*
Carlos
Joaquin Murrieta era un messicano, che non avrebbe combattuto se non per la sua terra. Ai cileni piace appropriarsi di cose che non gli appartengono. Che peccato Neruda!
Joaquin era mexicano, quien sino iba a pelear sino es por su tierra. Los chilenos son de apropiarse de cosas que no les pertenecen. Que verguenza Neruda!
*
Carlos
Joaquin Murrieta era un messicano, che non avrebbe combattuto se non per la sua terra. Ai cileni piace appropriarsi di cose che non gli appartengono. Che peccato Neruda!
2024/2/24 - 11:37
Morning in America
It's still in San Diego
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/2/23 - 15:09
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA, War on Earth
Prison Song
(1976)
Scritta da Tommy Butler (solo un omonimo del bassista dei Big Country) e interpretata da Carlton Williams per un musical intitolato "Selma" e dedicato alla famosa marcia di Selma e a Martin Luther King.
Scritta da Tommy Butler (solo un omonimo del bassista dei Big Country) e interpretata da Carlton Williams per un musical intitolato "Selma" e dedicato alla famosa marcia di Selma e a Martin Luther King.
Cold chills, prison cells
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/28 - 15:57
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Woman Of The Ghetto
Pochi giorni fa se ne è andata anche la grande Marlena Shaw, autrice e interprete di canzoni bellissime come questa.
DONNA DEL GHETTO
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/25 - 22:05
We March
(1995)
Scritta da Prince con Nona Gaye (figlia di Marvin Gaye)
Sembra che Prince sperasse che la canzone diventasse una specie di inno non ufficiale della Million Man March
Scritta da Prince con Nona Gaye (figlia di Marvin Gaye)
Sembra che Prince sperasse che la canzone diventasse una specie di inno non ufficiale della Million Man March
(Uno para todos, y todos para uno)
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/21 - 00:20
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Prayer Song
Album: Room 25 (2018)
Featuring Adam Ness
One of the more socially conscious tunes on the album is “Prayer Song,” which features vocals from Adam Ness. The lyrics deftly explore subjects, such as gun violence, police brutality, gentrification, toxic masculinity, and systemic racism.
The lyrics include: “I set my cell phone on the dash, could’ve sworn it’s a gun / I ain’t seen a toddler in the back after firing seven shots.”
Those words allude to incidents, where a black person is shot because a police officer apparently mistakes a cell phone for a gun.
It is also a reference to the June 7, 2016 murder of Philando Castile. He was shot by a police officer seven times while his 4-year-old daughter was sitting in the backseat.
The song additionally explores how America never truly removed the shackles of past racial oppression (“A free man in the land of the noose,” “Darkness lingers in... (Continues)
Featuring Adam Ness
One of the more socially conscious tunes on the album is “Prayer Song,” which features vocals from Adam Ness. The lyrics deftly explore subjects, such as gun violence, police brutality, gentrification, toxic masculinity, and systemic racism.
The lyrics include: “I set my cell phone on the dash, could’ve sworn it’s a gun / I ain’t seen a toddler in the back after firing seven shots.”
Those words allude to incidents, where a black person is shot because a police officer apparently mistakes a cell phone for a gun.
It is also a reference to the June 7, 2016 murder of Philando Castile. He was shot by a police officer seven times while his 4-year-old daughter was sitting in the backseat.
The song additionally explores how America never truly removed the shackles of past racial oppression (“A free man in the land of the noose,” “Darkness lingers in... (Continues)
[Verse 1: Noname]
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/15 - 20:49
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
At the Welcome Table
Anonymous
Testo di :
I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
nella interpretazione di Hollis Watkins.
℗ 1990 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
come dal primo video " The Welcome Table " - 1:58 - della pagina iniziale.
I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
nella interpretazione di Hollis Watkins.
℗ 1990 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
come dal primo video " The Welcome Table " - 1:58 - della pagina iniziale.
I’M GONNA SIT AT THE WELCOME TABLE
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/1/9 - 22:01
Eve Was Black
Album: The Returner (2023)
Eve was Black, haven't you heard?
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/14 - 18:41
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
Canzone per Angela Davis
1972
Questa grande umanità ha detto basta! - Canzoni di lotta di tutto il mondo
Questa grande umanità ha detto basta! - Canzoni di lotta di tutto il mondo
Fuori, fuori Angela Davis
(Continues)
(Continues)
Contributed by Alberto Scotti 2024/1/13 - 01:57
Song Itineraries:
From World Jails, Racism and Slavery in the USA
Estranged Fruit
(2023)
Featuring NOFX
Fishbone EP
This track is off the influential ska band’s recently self-titled EP, which was produced by NOFX’s Fat Mike. Referring to Billie Holiday’s 1939 classic anti-lynching standard “Strange Fruit“, the tune effectively merges past histories with current realities.
Questo brano fa parte del recente EP omonimo della influente band ska, prodotto da Fat Mike dei NOFX. Con un riferimento al classico contro i linciaggi del 1939 di Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit", il pezzo fonde efficacemente storie passate con realtà attuali.
50 Best Protest Songs of 2023
Featuring NOFX
Fishbone EP
This track is off the influential ska band’s recently self-titled EP, which was produced by NOFX’s Fat Mike. Referring to Billie Holiday’s 1939 classic anti-lynching standard “Strange Fruit“, the tune effectively merges past histories with current realities.
Questo brano fa parte del recente EP omonimo della influente band ska, prodotto da Fat Mike dei NOFX. Con un riferimento al classico contro i linciaggi del 1939 di Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit", il pezzo fonde efficacemente storie passate con realtà attuali.
50 Best Protest Songs of 2023
The poplar trees are now populous
(Continues)
(Continues)
2024/1/13 - 00:20
Song Itineraries:
Racism and Slavery in the USA
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