Soul Notes and Policial Listening List

Here are the Soul notes.

Here is the political listening list.

The last listening list and notes will be posted by Friday along with an announcement about the final exam.... (brrrrrrrr)

Songs about lynching

Suppertime

Ethel Waters (original 1933 recording)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAw8ru_nQc

live performance (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Zvjjbc-Hk

Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mO92ll_q0k

Civil Rights Era (1954-69)

Civil Rights Hymns

I’ll fly away

The Southern Sons (1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKc8U3Lpdgo

We shall overcome

Mahalia Jackson (1960~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyKJjj2oC0

live performance (1968~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR1YvfIGng

Eyes on the prize (Gospel Plow)

Sweet Honey in the Rock (1980s~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tcZAqQUAg

Other Civil Rights Music

Alabama

John Coltrane (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkVuU6G9h6o

A change is gonna come

Sam Cooke (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH25EUgFMmI

People get ready

Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKEbnS1eBE

I Wish I Knew How it would feel to be free

Nina Simone (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNBpizpZkE

live performance (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEP0-8VAow

Four women

Nina Simone (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmzQ39sXTQ

To be young, gifted and black

Nina Simone (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEMOxRxcJpo

To be young, gifted and black

Aretha Franklin (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7VJAhnxlc

Say it loud – I’m black and Im’ proud

James Brown (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0A_N-wmiMo

Post Civil Rights Music

Love Child

Diana Ross and the Supremes (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YflH6Sqgk

In the ghetto

Candi Staton (1970~)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXqcynZZYg

Women’s Love rights

Laura Lee (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWstcxPonPc

Lift every voice and sing

Ray Charles (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU8921j20e8

choral version (???)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Bn7kPkLo

Living for the city

Stevie Wonder (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc0XEw4m-3w

You haven’t done nothin’

Stevie Wonder (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQCJ6PzRdA

Mr. Welfare man

Gladys Knight and the Pips (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDMTlVnA6qM

Fear of a black planet

Public Enemy (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQmFk1ok0