VA - Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement (Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966) (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue) | 02:16:56 | 691,59 MB
Gospel, Political Folk, Word, Black Gospel, Traditional Folk | Label: Smithsonian/Folkways
The civil rights movement used freedom songs to spread their message, adapting folk and pop tunes with contemporary topical lyrics, or writing new songs addressing social injustice in general, and injustice for African-Americans in particular. This is a two-CD, 43-song compilation of such songs, recorded live in mass meetings in churches between 1960 and 1966.