Afroamerican Prison song - Alan Lomax presents

This is a short excerpt from documentary movie "Lomax the songhunter", with some of the most epic songs ever sung. Try to find this movie if you are keen on traditional folk music from all around the world

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Music

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• alan lomax
• the songhunter
• prison song
• slavery song
• afroamerican
• grizzly bear

[Rico2106]

fuck the race row... feel the spirit in these men!

[BamaBoy205SR]

@Rico2106 yeah just enjoy the music not mention the bias court system that place their grandchildren in these same fucking chain gangs and target them in their communities charging them with Bogus charges like "refusing to obey"

what the hell do you Know

[661Sunshine]

sexy legs @ 1:05 ...... sorry i was in prison for 10 years

[THEerizzow]

I think you took my comment in an offensive manner. I didn't say the whites never changed things for the blacks. I'm simply stating it shows the ego of some folks, who put themselves at the center of something like this. it's logical to think people acted how they were raised to act. some are quick to take our social standards and apply them to two hundred years ago when in reality no one knows how they would have acted in that situation.

[datubeda]

@THEerizzow "Every other white person", huh? Drop the racist bullshit dude. A lot of people in every culture find the courage to go against the grain. A lot of blood was shed pal by those who changed things. Don't think for a second that the black people of the south would have been freed if some white people didn't try to change things. Ignorant.

[THEerizzow]

I see alot of "white ego fluffing" going on here. You would have been doing the same as every other white person back then, living the life you were raised to live. Just like today, people live their lives and the future generations will look back claiming we were doing something wrong and they would have never done anything like that. It's all bullshit, enjoy the pain in the music. look back at that aspect of history with shame, but don't bring yourself into it like you would have changed it.

[moonsugar1]

@MrMoman7 Thats not true. Although maybe in some cases that may have been encouraged to sing to keep working at a steady beat, there are also alot of songs that were sung about thier oppression, their social lives, women, telling stories and folklore, many other things. Its not like they just sang because the white man told them too. You can hear African chants, sounds and percussion in alot of the Lomax recordings... I suggest you open your ears a bit wider buddy!!

[MrMoman7]

@moonsugar1 no

they dont did it beacause they had fun on it!

to explain it in my bad english is difficult but i will try it

it was a strategy of the white man!

first the music is for the motivation

second they all had to let their hammers ring in the rhythm

so if one hammer hit the metall not constant,they were able to hear it

you have 3 chances to guess what they did with a black man who was weak....

so there werent any "feelings" they were froced to do that

[MrMoman7]

@seerskater no

they dont did it beacause they had fun on it!

to explain it in my bad english is difficult but i will try it

it was a strategy of the white man!

first the music is for the motivation

second they all had to let their hammers ring in the rhythm

so if one hammer hit the metall not constant,they were able to hear it

you have 3 chances to guess what they did with a black man who was weak....

so its sad sad