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A Hand is on the Gate

Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Object Details

Collection Creator

Asch, Moses
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
Folkways Records

Collection Citation

Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Contents

From the dark tower ; The negro speaks of rivers ; Frederick Douglass ; We wear the mask --Runagate runagate ; The dark symphonby : Lento grave ; O black and unknown bards ; 'buked and scorned --Ol' Lem ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Southern mansion ; Mother to son --Sence you went away ; When Malindy sings ; A negro love song ; All hid ; Little boy --An old woman remembers ; Between the world and me ; My angel ; Dink's song --Journey to a parallel ; The end of man is his beauty ; The ballad of Rudolph Reed ; A moment please ; We have been believers ; O' Shenandoah ; Speech : I have heard ... --La vie c'est la vie ; At early morn --The elevator man ; Look at that gal ... ; Glory glory --To a young poet ; Four questions ; Counterpoint -- Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till ; Bound no'th blues ; Ma Rainey ; Get up, blues ; The rebel ; The distant drum. No images : Why try : Ontogeny recapitulates ... ; Robert Whitmore ; Harlem sweeties --A street in Bronzeville : Kitchenette ; After winter ; When in Rome ; American gothic : To Satch --Jane Jane ; Epigram ; Conception ; Alien -- My Lord, what a morning ; The preacher ruminates ... ; Personal ; Preface to a 20 volume suicide note ; Careless love --This ain't no mass thing ; Rocks and gravel ; Song ; If the birds.
sova.cfch.asch_ref17951

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5b511a55d-cd13-4bec-93f0-df1b006016b6

Local Numbers

FW-ASCH-LP-3862 Verve Folkways.9040-20C

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)

New York Verve/Folkways 1966

General

Program and biographical notes on container. Performer(s): Musical revue interspersing folk and popular songs with recitations of Black poetry ; Roscoe Lee Browne, director ; performed by Leon Bibb, Gloria Foster, Moses Gunn, Ellen Holly, James Earl Jones, Joshephine Prermice and Cicely Tyson ; music performed by Stuart Scharf, guitar ; Bill Lee, bass ; Floyd Williams, percussion ; Seldon Powell, flute. Production notes: Recorded in New York City, Sept. 26, 27, and 29, 1966.

Topic

Musicals
Folksong revival
Poetry
African Americans

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Moses and Frances Asch Collection
Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / LP

Extent

1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)

Date

1966

Archival Repository

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

Identifier

CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-LP-3862

Type

Archival materials
Phonograph records

Collection Rights

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Restrictions

Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
CFCH.ASCH_ref17951
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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5b511a55d-cd13-4bec-93f0-df1b006016b6
CFCH.ASCH
CFCHFOLKLIFE

Record ID

ebl-1649170801566-1649171785908-2

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