Preservation Playlist 1930s: The Golden Age of Music Raised in East Baltimore, “Lady Day,” known as Billie Holiday, sang music that gave rich credibility to the Black experience Holiday had a traumatic and challenging upbringing that can be felt in her music
Songs of Struggle and Protest 1930-50 - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Pete Seeger recorded Songs of Struggle and Protest on Folkways Records in 1964, just three years after testifying before the House of Un-American Activities Committee and during the height of his blacklist status
Blues as Protest | Library of Congress " I Don't Do Nobody Nothin'," led by C W "Preacher" Smith with unidentfied singers at Cummins State Farm in Arkansas, has quailties of both spirituals and blues The song's complaint about being unfairly hated also seems to make it an ancestor of songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Sorrow Songs - Annenberg Learner Drawing on both African musical styles and western European sources, black slaves in the antebellum South created a rich musical tradition of Sorrow Songs, or spirituals
Sorrow songs - Wikipedia Sorrow songs expressed the suffering and unjust treatment of enslaved African Americans during the period of slavery in the United States (1619–1865) The melodies and the lyrics conveyed sadness, and the words were "stunningly direct" about what it is to be enslaved
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