Carawan, Guy

Overview

Works:	173 works in 342 publications in 1 language and 8,463 library holdings
Genres:	Songs and music Music Criticism, interpretation, etc Scores Gospel music Folklore Nonfiction films Songs Documentary films Popular music
Roles:	Author, Performer, Compiler, Transcriber, Singer, Instrumentalist, Editor, Collector, Composer, Producer, Other, Speaker

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Guy Carawan

The telling takes me home( Visual )
FolkScene collection( )
Bernice V. Robinson papers by B Robinson( )
Southern Folklife Collection field notes( )
Alan Kanter collection by Alan Kanter( )

Zilphia Horton folk music collection by Zilphia Horton( )
Ethelyn Murray Parker papers by Ethelyn Murray Parker( )
Carawan, Guy by Irwin Stambler( )
Erik Darling papers by Erik Darling( )
Southern Folklife Collection artist name files( )
Anne Romaine papers by Anne Romaine( )
Sounds of the South collection by Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music( )
Septima P. Clark papers by Septima Poinsette Clark( )
Dave Sear collection by Dave Sear( )

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Most widely held works by Guy Carawan

Ain't you got a right to the tree of life? The people of Johns Island, South Carolina, their faces, their words, and their songs by Guy Carawan( Book )

15 editions published between 1966 and 2001 in English and held by 1,206 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors

Voices from the mountains by Guy Carawan( Book )

15 editions published between 1975 and 1997 in English and held by 1,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields."--Publisher description

Everybody says freedom by Pete Seeger( Book )

5 editions published between 1989 and 2009 in English and held by 846 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of the civil rights movement in songs, pictures, interviews, and recollections

Sing for freedom : the story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs by Guy Carawan( )

6 editions published between 1990 and 1992 in English and held by 603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of civil rights songs traditionally sung by African- Americans

We shall overcome! : songs of the Southern freedom movement by Guy Carawan( )

7 editions published between 1963 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 438 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Classic protest songs( Recording )

3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

War, social injustice, and calls for action have long fueled the creative musical fire for many passionate artists. Here some of folk's greatest artists are featured in some of music's most powerful songs for change

Freedom is a constant struggle; songs of the freedom movement, with documentary photographs by Guy Carawan( )

3 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Been in the storm so long : a collection of spirituals, folk tales and children's games from Johns Island, South Carolina( Recording )

5 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

If I had a hammer : songs of hope & struggle by Pete Seeger( Recording )

1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Nashville sit-in story : songs & scenes of Nashville lunch counter desegregation by Guy Carawan( )

12 editions published between 1960 and 2007 in English and held by 245 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Songs & scenes of Nashville lunch counter desegregation (by the sit-in participants)

Been in the storm so long : spirituals & shouts, children's game songs & folktales by Guy Carawan( )

6 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in English and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Folk music of the Newport Folk Festival( )

4 editions published in 1961 in English and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)( Visual )

2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Volume 36: This session is full of the sound and power of movement song. Bernice Johnson Reagon explains the origin of the SNCC Freedom Singers. She introduces a brief video of Cordell Reagon who organized the singers with Charles Sherrod. Many well known activists participate in the session including Guy Carawan who introduced "We Shall Overcome" to SNCC in 1960. Folk singer Len Chandler, a regular presence at protests and rallies, explains singing freedom songs: "When you hear something twice, sing it!" Harry Belafonte leads the audience in his famous Banana Boat Song. SNCC's own anthem, "We'll Never Turn Back," written by Georgia activist Bertha Gober, closes out the gathering

This little light of mine : and other songs by Guy Carawan( )

7 editions published between 1959 and 2007 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 138 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Guy Carawan sings something old, new, borrowed, and blue by Guy Carawan( )

5 editions published between 1959 and 2007 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

We shall overcome ; songs of the Freedom Riders and the Sit -Ins by Montgomery Gospel Trio( )

9 editions published between 1961 and 2006 in English and held by 128 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Songs with Guy Carawan by Guy Carawan( )

4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

We shall overcome( Visual )

5 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the transformation of the title song from an old slave spiritual to the anthem of the civil rights movement, while chronicling its effect on human rights movements in the United States and in other parts of the world, using historical footage and personal recollections

True false lovers : a collection of British love songs by Shirley Collins( )

2 editions published in 1959 in English and held by 116 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Moving Star Hall Singers & Alan Lomax by Moving Star Hall Singers( )

2 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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