Follow the Drinking Gourd

(folk version)

Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Video)

Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) 

Old Folks at Home

Videos of Jazz performers of the 20s and 30s

Oh Freedom

Duke Ellington Film: BLACK and TAN FANTASY

Kneebone Bend

Movie about the Scopes (Monkey) Trial

IWW Music Videos/Songs

Walt Disney: Steamboat Willy (Mickey Mouse!)

Links to Civil War Music

The Hunters of Kentucky

Watch Music Presentations Here!

Song with a viewpoint on immigration.

Songs of American Labor

"Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches."                                      Pete Seeger

Go Down Moses - Video

Jump Jim Crow

Many Thousands Gone

(No More Auction Block)

Battle Cry of Freedom (Union)

Song Links for 1920s Popular Music 

Follow the Drinking Gourd

(traditional version)

Battle Cry of Freedom (Confederacy)

Oh Lord. I'm Waiting On You

Oh' Suzanna

Video Clip: THE JAZZ SINGER

The First "Talkie" (Film with Sound)! 

Old Dan Tucker

Deep River 

African Song: Ayilongo

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Songs of Minstrelsy

The Jazz Singer Inspired Disney to release Steam Boat Willie!

Roll Jordan Roll

Comtois' Newport Folk Festival Podcast

Watch Music Presentations Here!

The First Full Length Feature Film!

History of American Music

Video Links

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Music, Politics and American Culture

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