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• 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).

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Contributors:

Leadbelly, 1885-1949 , performer

Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958 , performer

Burkee, Jill , performer

Carawan, Guy

Cunningham, Sis, 1909-2004 , performer

Dane, Barbara , performer

Dann, Mark , performer

Dupree, Champion Jack, -1992 , performer

Estridge, Larry, 1948- , performer

Forbert, Steve , performer

Getz, Liz

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967 , performer

Hardy, Jack, 1947-2011 , performer

Ian, Janis , performer

La Farge, Peter, 1931-1965 , performer

Ochs, Phil , performer

Seeger, Peggy, 1935- , performer

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014 , performer

Sellers, John, 1924-1999 , performer

Bergerfolk (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

New Lost City Ramblers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

New World Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Perros del Pueblo Nuevo (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Red Shadow (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English
Spanish

Language Notes:

Sung in English (principally) and Spanish.

Alternate Titles:

Title on original container: Classic protest songs from Smithsonian Folkways

Subjects:

Popular music

Protest songs — United States

Protest songs

United States

Performers:

Various performers.

General Notes:

Originally issued as compact disc.
Program notes by Jeff Place, bibliography, and discography inserted in original container.
Selections originally released 1959-2005; track 16 previously unreleased.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

698166989

Other Control Numbers:

sky234872595 (source: CaEvSKY)
612087 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP612087/glmu