FOLKWAYS RECORDS

Ossie Davis reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass's autobiography, edited by Dr. Philip Foner, which traces the abolitionist and statesman's life from early childhood through to his most significant...

.When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe it's limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world...

The classic 1957 release from one of the greats of gospel blues, a rough diamond of hard, pure country gospel expression, at odds with the earthly concerns of the blues and yet entwined with the...

Millhouse: A White Comedy is an exuberantly opinionated documentary film made in 1971 by producer/director Emile De Antonio on the political career of Richard Milhous Nixon, from his election to...

De Antonio,Emile Underground CD1. Statement By the Underground 2. Violence Is Necessary: H. Rap Brown, Malcolm X, M.L. King, Jr., F. Castro 3. The Viet War: Ho Chi Minh, N.T. Dinh, J. Ford 4. SDS,...

Victor Hugo stands as one of the giants of French literature. Though his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables are his most famous works, Hugo also wrote in many other genres...

Except for the "Complainte Ruteboeuf," which would be incomprehensible to present-day French speakers, the poems here are recited in their original versions to highlight linguistic variations through...

Debusk-Weaver Family Meeting In The Air CD1. Poor Orphan Child 2. Little Log Cabin By the Sea 3. Keep on the Sunnyside 4. Anchored in Love 5. Cyclone of Rycove, the 6. No Telephone in Heaven 7. On...

Deep Polka brings out the vitality and variety of the Polka and related European-derived dance music played by bands throughout the upper Midwest today. Although little known outside this region,...

Demonstration Collection / Var Demonstration Collection / Var CD1. Old Rigi Yodel with Inserted Song 2. Shawm Orchestra of Shepherds 3. Gurians Recording: Prison Camp, End of the First World War 4...

When Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard recorded these songs in the mid-1960s, bluegrass music was dominated by male performers. They selected their favorite songs and arranged them for a stellar group...

Diola-Fogny Casamance / Var Diola-Fogny Casamance / Var CD1. Individual "Praise-Singing" 2. Cultivating in Peanut Fields 3. Cultivating in Rice Fields 4. Bugur - Marriage Celebration, Singing 5...