Playlist

The Spirit Confined

TIME

TITLE OF SELECTION
COMPOSER
PERFORMERS
ALBUM TITLE / INFO

00:16

Improvisation à 6 temps
Traditional Iranian
Djamchid Chemirani, zarb [drum]
MUSIQUE IRANIENNE
- Harmonia Mundi 190391

03:22
04:23

Hollers
Traditional
Dobie Red, Foots
PRISON SONGS Vol.2:
DON'TCHA HEAR POOR MOTHER CALLING?
- Rounder 1715

05:33

Stewball
Traditional
"22" and group with axes
PRISON SONGS Vol.2:
DON'TCHA HEAR POOR MOTHER CALLING?
- Rounder 1715

06:46

O Rosie
Traditional
"22" and group with axes
PRISON SONGS Vol.2:
DON'TCHA HEAR POOR MOTHER CALLING?
- Rounder 1715

08:11

I'm In the Bottom
Improvised song
Johnny Jackson and group
WAKE UP DEAD MAN - BLACK CONVICT WORKSONGS
FROM TEXAS PRISONS
- Rounder 2013

11:27

Les barres de la prison
Dewey Balfa
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS -
'TIT GALOP POUR MAMOU
- Rounder 6048

14:47

Oba Igbo
Traditional Nigerian
Babatunde Olatunji et al
BABATUNDE OLATUNJI -
DRUMS OF PASSION: THE INVOCATION
- Rykodisc 10102

16:37

Colonial Mentality
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti et al
FELA - ORIGINAL SUFFERHEAD
- Shanachie 44010

19:58 - 26:37

Selections from -
X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Anthony, Thulani and Christopher Davis
Soloists and chorus, Episteme
and The Orchestra of St Luke's conducted by William Henry Curry
X, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X
- Gramavision 79470

27:59 - 33:19

Preludes #7 in A and #4 in e, Op. 28
Frédéric Chopin
Nelson Friere, piano
CHOPIN: 24 Preludes/ 4 Ballades
- Sony 62415

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Poetry cited by Rosanna Warren from
IN TIME: WOMEN'S POETRY FROM PRISON
- edited by Rosanna Warren and Teresa Iverson

Copies of this book can be ordered for
$1 from:

Rosanna Warren,
Boston University,
The University Professors
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston , MA 02215

Proceeds benefit the Prison Education Fund at Boston University

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34:32

New Beginning
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman et al
TRACY CHAPMAN - NEW BEGINNING
- Elektra 61850

39:17

"Danse de la fureur" from Quartet for the End of Time
Olivier Messiaen
Saschko Gawiriloff, violin
Hans Deinzer, clarinet
Siegfried Palm, cello
Aloys Kontarsky, piano
MESSIAEN - TURANGALILA- SYMPHONIE
/QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
- EMI 47463

44:12

Repülj madár, repülj
[" Fly bird, Fly!"]
Traditional Hungarian
Muzsikás
MUZSIKÁS - THE PRISONER'S SONG
- Hannibal 1341

48:51

Ayikh' Indaw' Enjengekhaya
Traditional South African
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMAZO -
LIPH' IQINISO
- Shanachie 64053

51:41

Chant by the Militants
African National Congress chant
Radio Freedom of the ANC
RADIO FREEDOM - Rounder 4019

53:07

Thulasizwe/ I Shall Be Released
Traditional/
Bob Dylan
Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone et al
MIRIAM MAKEBA - EYES ON TOMORROW
- Polydore 849 313

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Poetry by Ken Saro Wiwa and Ahmad Shamloo from "This Prison Where I Live: Anthology of Imprisoned Writers" was read courtesy of Continuum Publishing Company.

Excerpts from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, ©1998, were read courtesy of The Family of Malcolm X. Licensed by CMG Worldwide Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 46256 USA www.cmgww.com

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