Tag Archives: Freedom songs
Guardian report of Pete Seeger’s death and his singing This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie)
Guiding light, South African Freedom Committee featuring Sathima Bea Benjamin
Mayibuye choir
Leadbelly, We’re in the same boat brother
Song on Oliver Tambo, who led the ANC during its period of exile
Woody Guthrie:This land is your land
Mahalia Jackson, summertime and Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Paul Robeson: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba,Thulasizwe and I shall be released
We shall overcome by Louis Armstrong
Paul Robeson: Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel
Paul Robeson sings to the workers at Sydney Opera House
Sings Old Man River and Joe Hill at building site
Mayibuye choir sings freedom songs
Nkosi sikelel iAfrika , Ladysmith Black Mambazo (not SA anthem with Die Stem)
Senzenina
Hamba khahle Umkhonto. ANC choir
Miriam Makeba sings Vuyisile Mini classic
Pete Seeger: We shall overcome
This famous US civil rights song, may derive from an African-American composer, Charles Albert Tindley published in 1947, although Pete Seeger has said that nobody knows exactly who wrote the original. In the 1960s the song was made famous in the United States civil rights struggle. It was widely sung at concerts and rallies by Seeger, Joan Baez and others.
Joan Baez: We shall overcome
See discussion of ‘we shall overcome’ in entry on Pete Seeger version
Raymond Suttner 