The Color Line: Les Artistes Africains-américains Et La Ségrégation 1916-1962
Various Artists
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Release Date: 14/09/2018
The color line has long dominated relations between Blacks, Whites and mixed race, and often still does. Abolished in 1966 in the USA, racial segregation was widely evoked in African-American musics, inspiring masterpieces of dignity, humour, resistance and spirituality. Work songs, blackface minstrels, negro spirituals, calypso, jazz, blues, rock and gospel gave a beat to these intensely creative expressions. In partnership with the MusEe du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, on the occasion of "The Color Line" exhibition in Paris, Bruno Blum tells the story of these 59 titles, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil-Rights movement, in a 24-page booklet. Patrick FREMEAUX
Disc 1
1: Roll On Heave That Cotton - Harry Clinton Browne
2: Oh! Susanna - Harry Clinton Browne
3: Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands Onto Gold - Marcus Garvey
4: We Love Humanity - Marcus Garvey
5: Black and Tan Fantasy - B. Miley
6: Dry Bone Shuffle - Duke Ellington
7: The American Woman and the West Indian Man (Part 1) - Sam Manning
8: The American Woman and the West Indian Man (Part 2) - Sam Manning
9: High Society - Monk Hazel
10: Chicago High Life - Earl Hines
11: My Mammy - Al Jolson
12: W.P.A. Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
13: The Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly
14: Tarzan of Harlem - Cab Calloway
15: Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
16: Parchman Farm Blues - Bukka White
17: Trouble - Josh White
18: Uncle Sam Says - Josh White
19: Old Alabama - B.B.E
20: Early in the Morning - 22 & Group
Disc 2
1: Jim Crow - The Union Boys
2: Jim Crow Blues - Lead Belly
3: Black Brown and Beige - Work Song - Duke Ellington
4: Come Sunday - Duke Ellington
5: The Blues - Duke Ellington
6: Three Dances - Duke Ellington
7: Water Boy - Paul Robeson
8: Prison Blues - Alex
9: Hard Road Blues - Floyd Dixon
10: Black, Brown and White - Big Bill Broonzy
11: Brown Skin Woman - Howlin' Wolf
12: Low Society - Ray Charles
13: I've Been Born Again - The Blind Boys of Alabama
14: Black and Tan Fantasy - Thelonious Monk
15: No Room at the Inn - Mahalia Jackson
16: The Alabama Bus - Brother Will Hairston
17: Jim Crow Train - Josh White
18: Star-o - Harry Belafonte
19: Brown Skin Girl - Lloyd Thomas
20: Gold Coast - John Coltrane
Disc 3
1: Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry
2: Say Boss Man - Bo Diddley
3: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Louis Armstrong
4: The Great Grandfather - Bo Diddley
5: Better Get It in Your Soul - Charles Mingus
6: Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?) - Babatunde Olatunji
7: Carrie Belle - John Davis
8: Working Man - Bo Diddley
9: Ancient Ethiopia - Sun Ra
10: Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles
11: Death Don't Have No Mercy - Reverend Gary Davis
12: Chain Gang - Sam Cooke
13: Work Song - Oscar Brown Jr.
14: Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - Snooks Eaglin
15: Are You Sure - Aretha Franklin
16: Exodus - Eddie Harris
17: Minstrel and Queen - The Impressions
18: You Can't Judge a Book (By Looking at the Cover) - Bo Diddley
19: Judge Harsh Blues - Furry Lewis
20: We Shall Overcome - Guy Carawan