MUH/PAS 214- African American Music (Tolson)
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The Roots
| Composer/Performer/Genre |
Title |
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| Ashanti War Chant |
Ose Yie |
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| Yoruba Work Chant |
Ake |
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| Homage to a King |
Oba Oba |
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| Harvest Ceremony |
Okaikoi |
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Shouts/Ring Shouts
| Composer/Performer/Genre |
Title |
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| Greeting Shout |
How Do You Do Ev'rybody |
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| Prayer Shout |
Kneebone Bend |
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| New Year Shout |
Yonder Come a Day |
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| Shout |
Run, Old Jeremiah |
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| Shout |
Choose Your Seat and Set Down |
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Work Songs/Hollers/Cries
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Anon. |
Ain't No More Cane on This Brazos |
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| Anon. |
Long Hot Summer Days |
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| Anon. |
Ho Boys, Cancha Line 'Em |
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| Street Cry |
I Got 'Em |
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| Street Cry |
Watermelon Man |
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| Sunrise Holler |
Chickens Done Crowed |
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| Graveyard Holler |
Shine On |
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Folk Songs
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| John Davis |
Read 'Em John |
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| Lightning |
Long John |
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| Arthur Bell |
John Henry |
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| Harry Belafonte |
Boll Weevil |
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| James (Ironhead) Baker and Group |
Grey Goose |
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Early Spirituals/Underground Railroad
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
Mary, What You Call Yo' Baby |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
Steal Away |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
Many Thousan' Gone |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
Follow the Drinking Gourd |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
There's A Meetin' Here Tonight |
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| Early Spirtuals/Underground Railroad |
Wonderful Counciller |
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Country Blues
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Robert Johnson |
Cross Road Blues |
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| Leadbelly |
I Ain't Gonna Ring Dem Yellow Women's Do' Bells |
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| Leadbelly |
Midnight Special |
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| Leadbelly |
Red Cross Store Blues |
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| Blind Lemon Jefferson |
Matchbox Blues |
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| Robert Pete Williams |
On My Way from Texas |
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| Lightning Hopkins |
Tom Moore Blues |
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Minstrel
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Minstrel Song |
Honey, Take a Whiff on Me |
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| Minstrel Song |
Go 'Long Muley |
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| Minstrel Song |
Dat Liar |
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Urban Blues
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Bessie Smith |
Jail-House Blues |
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Bessie Smith |
Lost Your Head Blues |
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| Bessie Smith |
St. Louis Blues |
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| T-Bone Walker |
Stormy Monday |
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| anon. |
Easy Rider Blues |
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Jazz
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Scott Joplin |
Maple Leaf Rag |
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| Jelly Roll Morton |
Black Bottom Stomp |
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| Louis Armstrong |
Potato Head Blues |
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| Louis Armstrong |
Struttin' With Some Barbeque |
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| Fletcher Henderson |
Stampede |
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| Count Basie |
Jumpin' at the Woodside |
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| Duke Ellington |
Cottontail |
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| Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker |
Shaw 'Nuff |
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| Charlie Parker |
KoKo |
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| Ella Fitzgerald |
How High the Moon |
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| Miles Davis |
Summertime |
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| Miles Davis |
So What |
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| Modern Jazz Quartet |
Django |
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| John Coltrane |
Giant Steps |
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| Jazz Messengers |
Moanin' |
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| Weather Report |
Birdland |
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| Herbie Hancock |
Chameleon |
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| Grover Washington |
Mr. Magic |
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Early Modern Gospel
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Marion Anderson |
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child |
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| Thomas Dorsey/Mahalia Jackson |
Take My Hand, Precious Lord |
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| anon. |
Lord, I Don't Feel Noways Tired |
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| Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet |
Rock My Soul |
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| Swan Silvertones |
Mary Don't You Weep |
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| Mahalia Jackson |
Move On Up a Little Higher |
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| Roberta Martin Singers |
Old Ship of Zion |
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Rhythm and Blues
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Ray Charles |
What'd I Say |
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| Ray Charles |
I've Got a Woman |
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| Orioles |
It's Too Soon to Know |
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| Platters |
Great Pretender |
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| Five Satins |
In the Still of the Night |
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| Louis Jordan |
Saturday Night Fish Fry |
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| Louis Jordan |
Choo Choo Ch' Boogie |
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| Little Richard |
Long Tall Sally |
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| Little Richard |
Tutti Frutti |
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| Chuck Berry |
Maybelline |
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| Joe Turner |
Shake, Rattle & Roll |
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| Charles Brown |
In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down |
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| Ruth Brown |
Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean |
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| Etta James |
At Last |
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| Fats Domino |
Ain't That a Shame |
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Classical
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Paul Robeson |
Ole Man River |
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| William Grant Still |
Afro-American Symphony |
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| William Grant Still |
Incantation & Dance |
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| Louis Moreau Gottschalk |
Bamboula, Danse de Negres |
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| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
Danse Negre |
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Civil Rights
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Billie Holiday |
Strange Fruit |
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| James Brown |
Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud |
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| Sly & the Family Stone |
Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey |
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| Impressions |
Choice of Colors |
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| Otis Redding |
Change is Gonna Come |
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| Nina Simone |
To Be Young, Gifted and Black |
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| Marvin Gaye |
What's Goin' On |
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| Gil Scott-Heron |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
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| Richie Havens |
The Klan |
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| SNCC Singers |
We Shall Overcome |
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| SNCC Singers |
We Shall Not Be Moved |
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| SNCC Singers |
Woke Up This Morning. . . |
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| SNCC Singers |
Get Your Rights, Jack |
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Motown/Soul/Funk
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Four Tops |
Reach Out I'll Be There |
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| Supremes |
Love Child |
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| Aretha Franklin |
Respect |
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| Jackson 5 |
I Want You Back |
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| Ike & Tina Turner |
I Want to Take You Higher |
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| Temptations |
Ball of Confusion |
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| Staple Singers |
Respect Yourself |
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| O'Jays |
Love Train |
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| Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes |
Wake Up Everybody |
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| Isaac Hayes |
Theme from Shaft |
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| Earth, Wind & Fire |
Shining Star |
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| Kool & the Gang |
Jungle Boogie |
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| Parliament |
Chocolate City |
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| Funkadelic |
One Nation Under a Groove |
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| Isley Brothers |
Fight the Power |
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Rap
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Sugar Hill Gang |
Rapper's Delight |
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| Grand Master Flash |
The Message |
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| Ice-T |
Colors |
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| Run D.M.C. |
Proud to be Black |
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| N.W.A. |
Express Yourself |
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| Queen Latifah |
Ladies First |
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| Public Enemy |
Night of the Living Baseheads |
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| M.C. Hammer |
Turn this mutha out |
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| Public Enemy |
Fight the Power |
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| Naughty by Nature |
O.P.P. |
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| DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince |
Summertime |
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| Junior M.A.F.I.A. |
Gettin' money, the get money remix |
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| Arrested Development |
Tennessee |
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| Common |
Light |
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| 2Pac |
Until the End of Time |
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| 50 Cent, featuring Nate Dogg |
21 Questions |
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Contemporary Gospel
| Composer/Performer |
Title |
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| Edwin Hawkins Singers |
Oh Happy Day |
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| Tramaine Hawkins |
Goin' Up Yonder |
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| Andrae Crouch |
My Tribute |
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| Richard Smallwood |
Anthem of Praise |
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| Donnie McClurkin/R. Smallwood |
Total Praise |
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| Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers |
Testify |
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| The Winans |
It's Time |
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| Vicki Winans |
How I Got Over |
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| John P. Kee |
You Blessed Me |
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| Kurt Carr |
Be Grateful |
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| Shirley Caeser |
I'm Blessed |
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| Marvin Sapp |
Never Would Have Made It |
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