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Various Harlem Speaks (2006)
YEAR: 2006
This misc cd contains 32 tracks and runs 64min 10sec.
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  1. Various - Introduction : a montage of Harlem renaissance voices, including WEB Du Bois and Langston Hughes, over music from the era from James Reese Europe and Charlie Johnson. (01:21)
  2. Various - In 1972 Eubie Blake gave a private performance in a friend's home, playing a medley of songs including "Love Will find a Way" and ending with "I'm Just Wild About Harry" from Shuffle Along. In this previously unpublished recording, if you listen
  3. Various - Controversial FIRE!! Author Bruce Nugent discusses his unexpected reaction to Carl Van Vechten and Nigger Heaven. (00:45)
  4. Various - The works of many Harlem Renaissance artists played off and paid tribute to other black artists. Poet Sterling Brown reads his tribute to Ma Rainey that describes the singer and her impact on southern black audiences. (02:14)
  5. Various - Ma Rainey, the "Mother of the Blues," recorded the song "Misery Blues" in August, 1927. (02:45)
  6. Various - Langston Hughes pioneered the adaptation of the blues to poetry. Here he reads his best known blues poem, "The Weary Blues." (02:46)
  7. Various - Langston Hughes reads his poem "Mother to Son," which he first published in The Crisis in 1922 when he was 20 years old. It became one of his most popular poems. (00:56)
  8. Various - Langston Hughes reads his poem, "Dream Variation," which he wrote in 1923 during his first visit to the coast of West Africa. On this trip Hughes discovered both his connection and the disconnect with the continent of his ancestors. (00:42)
  9. Various - Countee Cullen reads an excerpt from "Heritage." Although Cullen did not travel to Africa, he still explored the question of African heritage in this, his best known poem. (03:41)
  10. Various - Hear Claude McKay read and discuss his poem, "If We Must Die." The poem, written as a protest against the race riots and violence of 1919, became a universal statement of resistance against tyranny. part 1 (02:12)
  11. Various - Hear Claude McKay read and discuss his poem, "If We Must Die." The poem, written as a protest against the race riots and violence of 1919, became a universal statement of resistance against tyranny. part 2 (01:00)
  12. Various - In his poem "The Tropics of New York," McKay reminds us that for many residents of Harlem the Caribbean, not the South, was home. (00:51)
  13. Various - Zora Neale Hurston... sings "Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice," and explains how she learns the songs. part 1 (03:10)
  14. Various - Zora Neale Hurston... sings "Mama Don't Want No Peas No Rice," and explains how she learns the songs. part 2 (00:35)
  15. Various - "Uncle Bud" was relatively bawdy for the day. You can hear Zora Neale Hurston laughing as she recites the amusing lyrics. (03:13)
  16. Various - In 1951, Argentina Sono Film produced a movie based on Native Son. Richard Wright was cast as the twenty-five-year-old Bigger Thomas, despite being forty-two at the time. (01:06)
  17. Various - Eubie Blake wrote "Troublesome Ivories" in 1911 but did not record the song until much later. This 1974 recording includes Blake's spoken introduction to the song. (01:08)
  18. Various - "You Ought to Know" was from the 1924 Sissle and Blake musical The Chocolate Dandies. This 1926 recording features Eubie Blake on piano and Noble Sissle on vocals. (00:45)
  19. Various - Hear Bessie Smith sing "Mean Old Bed Bug Blues," as recorded in September 1927. (03:18)
  20. Various - Louis Armstrong leads His Hot Five and sings on this 1927 recording of "I'm Not Rough." (03:02)
  21. Various - Under Irving Mills' management, Duke Ellington and the Kentucky Club Orchestra grew famous and recorded dozens of songs including this November 1926 recording of "The Creeper," with Bubber Miley on trumpet and Sonny Greer on drums. (02:51)
  22. Various - This 1928 recording of "Do What You Did Last Night" is one of the few times Ethel Waters recorded with James P. Johnson, widely regarded at the time as the best piano player on the East coast. (02:40)
  23. Various - In 1926 Josephine Baker, already a star in Paris for her nightclub act, began her singing career. One of her first recording successes was "Bye Bye Blackbird." (02:54)
  24. Various - In 1910, W.E.B. Du Bois joined the NAACP. In this interview excerpt, he comments on how he made his role fit his desires, and the beginnings of The Crisis. (02:14)
  25. Various - Du Bois recalls how during World War I, despite prevalent racism, he was able to convince the Army to promote African Americans to the officer ranks. (00:53)
  26. Various - In 1896, the University of Pennsylvania employed Du Bois to conduct a research project in Philadelphia, but refused to offer him a faculty position or let him teach. (01:21)
  27. Various - James Weldon Johnson reads his poem, "The Creation" from God's Trombones. (04:08)
  28. Various - In 1925 Paul Robeson ... "No More Auction Block" serves a powerful reminder of the suffering that blacks have overcome as well as thei (02:11)
  29. Various - In this 1921 speech Garvey discusses the efforts of his political opponents to undermine his organization. He defends the UNIA, emphasizing its goals and objectives as well as its loyalty to the U.S. government. (01:55)
  30. Various - Marcus Garvey outlines the international perspective of the United Negro Improvement Association, and its objectives and beliefs in this excerpt from a recorded 1921 UNIA membership appeal. (01:24)
  31. Various - Throughout his career Alain Locke ... stressed the importance of "Negro Spirituals" in these introductory remarks for the Library of Congress concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of slavery. (01:15)
  32. Various - In the 1930s and 1940s A. Philip Randolph had evolved from a labor leader to the most significant spokesperson for civil rights. His message... was racial equality and the need to secure for all Americans their legal and Constitutional rights. (


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