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Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (poem by Langston Hughes)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:46
2
Cotton Club Stomp
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2:19
3
The Harlem Strut
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:33
4
Brother Low Down
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:52
5
Letter From Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:52
6
There'll Be Some Changes Made
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:22
7
Sounds of Africa
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:11
8
Sweet Man o' Mine
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3:16
9
The Weary Blues (poem by Langstron Hughes)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
1:27
10
Blues Ain't Nothin Else But!
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:10
11
Kansas City Man Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:56
12
Indianola
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:39
13
Hard Hearted Hannah
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:59
14
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem (poem by Helene Johnson)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:51
15
St. Louis Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:14
16
Copenhagen
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:51
17
Cake Walking Babies From Home
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:00
18
Long Gone (poem by Sterling Brown)
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0:58
19
Railroad Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:59
Disc 2
1
Smoke, Lillies and Jade (short story by Richard Bruce Nugent) (excerpt)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
1:54
2
(Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:51
3
Charleston
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:42
4
Chili Pepper
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:47
5
Lucy Long
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:51
6
Chain Gang Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:06
7
Mother to Son (poem by Langston Hughes)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:37
8
Deep River
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:21
9
East St. Louis Toodle-O
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:40
10
Lazy Drag
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:59
11
How It Feels to Be Colored Me (essay by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:00
12
Sengalese Stomp
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:58
13
After You've Gone
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:05
14
Dead Drunk Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:10
15
No Images (poem by Waring Cuney)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:19
16
Woke Up With the Blues in My Fingers
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:10
17
Worried Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:45
18
Humpty Dumpty
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:02
19
Ham and Eggs
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:01
20
Sugar
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:19
Disc 3
1
If We Must Die (poem by Claude McKay)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:51
2
Honey, I'm All Out and Down
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:13
3
My Handy Man
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:03
4
Ain't Misbehavin'
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:22
5
A Handfull of Riffs
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:06
6
Bright Boy Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:08
7
The Debt (poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:28
8
Harlem Fuss
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:22
9
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:58
10
Fare Thee Honey Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:21
11
Soon (poem by Leon Damas)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:30
12
Smashing Thirds
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:08
13
Do Shuffle
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:55
14
Wherever There's a Will, Baby
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:58
15
Dee Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:57
16
Odyssey of Big Boy (poem by Sterling Brown)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:42
17
Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:09
18
Panama
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:19
19
Royal Garden Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:02
20
America (poem by Claude McKay)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:52
21
Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:02
Disc 4
1
I Want to Die While You Love Me (poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:49
2
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:11
3
Corrine Corrina
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:03
4
Sweetie Dear
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:51
5
The Damnation of Women (essay by W.E.B. Dubois) (excerpt)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:26
6
Baby
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:09
7
Happy as the Day Is Long
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:24
8
I Got Rhythm
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:44
9
Let's Get Together
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:05
10
Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel by Zora Neale Hurston) (excerpt)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
1:45
11
Lady, Be Good
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:25
12
Symphony in Riffs
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:04
13
Sendin' the Vipers
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:57
14
Down South Camp Meeting
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:01
15
The Day Breakers (poem by Arna Bontemps)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
0:16
16
She'll Be Coming 'round the Mountain
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:44
17
Minor Mania
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:55
18
Sensemayá: Chant for Killing a Snake (poem by Nicolas Guillen)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
1:20
19
Symphony in Black
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9:28
20
Echoes of Spring
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
2:32
21
Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:03
22
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (essay by Langston Hughes)
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
1:48
23
It Never Dawned On Me
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:10
24
Honey Dripper Blues
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:08
25
I'm in the Mood for Love
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
3:09