SINGERS & SINGING

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Hour 1: No more Clear Channel! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway – Despite a national call for a delay, the FCC is poised to vote on media consolidation rules on June 2nd. Clear Channel has become the symbol of media consolidation, growing from a small-time operator of 40 stations to the nation’s largest radio station…

  • Democracy Now! May 29, 2003

    Part I of Democracy Now! s Special: Legendary Civil Rights Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock. In the civil rights movement, in jails, in rallies, the sound was a way of announcing a community and anybody who walked toward you, including the police, would be walking into your sound, and they would get to you…

  • Democracy Now! May 30, 2003

    Sweet Honey in the Rock: Part II with the Legendary Civil Rights Singers. I think that it is very important to understand that there is an American history of terrorizing its own citizens that s held in the legacy of African Americans. Families wonder how they can get their young boys to the age of…

  • Odetta / interviewed by Celestine Ware.

    African American folk, blues, jazz and spirituals singer Odetta (1930-2008) discusses her life in America, and her experiences in the music industry. An easy going interview held just before the closing of New York’s Fillmore East. She talks about Black musicians in America, her childhood, being a woman in the performing world, her metaphysical view…