Detailed Description
1926-1953 FEATURE NEARLY 300 EXTREMELY RARE RECORDINGS ON TEN COMPACT DISCS-ALSO INCLUDES A HARDCOVER BOOK
CD1: THE LEFTIST ROOTS OF THE FOLK REVIVAL
Carl Sandburg, John Allison, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Aunt Molly Jackson, Sara Ogan Gunning, Tilman Cadle, John Handcox, Bob Miller, The New Singers and The Manhattan Chorus
CD2: THEATER AND CABARET PERFORMERS
1936-1941: Mordecai Bauman, Earl Robinson, Paul Robeson, Tony Kraber, Saul Aaron, Harrison Dowd and Josh White
CD3:THE ALMANAC SINGERS:MARCH -JULY 1941
Songs For John Doe, Talking Union, Sod Buster Ballads, and Deep Sea Chanteys
CD4: FIGHTING THE FASCISTS: 1942-1944
The Almanac Singers, The Priority Ramblers, Songs Of
The LIncoln Brigade and The Union Boys
CD5 WORLD WAR II AND THE FOLK REVIVAL
Earl Robinson, Dooley Wilson, Sir Lancelot, Vern Partlow, Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston and Citizen CIO
CD6: THE PEOPLE'S SONGS ERA: 1945-1949
Josh White, Lee Hays, Bob Claiborne, Bernie Asbel, Lord Invader, Brownie McGhee, Sis Cunningham, Malvina Reynolds, Bill Oliver, The Berries, Mario Casetta,Vern Partlow, Dick Blakeslee and others.
CD7: PETE SEEGER: 1946-1948
With Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Hally Wood and others.
CD 8: CHARTER RECORDS: 1946-1949
Sir Lancelot, Goodson and Vale, People's Songs Chorus, The Berries, Pete Seeger, Mario Casetta, Betty Sanders, The Weavers and The Peekskill Story
CD9: CAMPAIGN SONGS: 1944-1949
1944 Roosevelt campaign: Earl Robinson, Josh White and Bill Oliver, 1946 F.T.A./Cannery Workers campaign: Vern Partlow and Mara Alexander. 1948 Henry Wallace/Glen Taylor Presidential campaign: Richard Huey, Royal Harmonaires, Abigail Alvarez, Paul Robeson, Michael Loring, Sis Cunningham, Bill Oliver, Malvina Reynolds, Sir Lancelot, Alan Lomax, and others. 1949 Mayoral campaigns: The Weavers, Hope Foye, Laura Duncan, and others.
CD10: AN ERA CLOSES: 1949-1953
Camp Unity's Freedom Theater, Gerald Gallant, Fred Hellerman, The Weavers, Ernie Lieberman, Hope Foye, Laura Duncan, Betty Sanders. Osborne Smith, Jewish Young Folksingers, Joe Glazer, Bill Friedland and Woody Guthrie.
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