Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-01-18
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
  2. I, Too - Langston Hughes
  3. Atlanta Years [Excerpt] - W.E.B. DuBois
  4. If We Must Die - Claude McKay
  5. St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd - Claude McKay
  6. Tropics in New York - Claude McKay
  7. Creation [#] - James Weldon Johnson
  8. We to America [#] - James Weldon Johnson
  9. Nocturne at Bethesda - Arna Bontemps
  10. Heritage - Countee Cullen
  11. Dark Symphony [#] - Melvin B. Tolson
  12. Ma Rainey [#] - Sterling A. Brown
  13. Strong Men [#] - Sterling A. Brown
  14. For My People - Margaret Walker
  15. Kissie Lee - Margaret Walker
  16. Mother [#] - Gwendolyn Brooks
  17. Dream Montage: Tell Me, Good Morning; Harlem; Same in Blues; Commen - Langston Hughes
  18. We Real Cool (Continued) [#] - Gwendolyn Brooks
  19. Those Winter Sundays [#] - Robert Hayden
  20. Fredrick Douglass [#] - Robert Hayden
  21. Sepia Fashion Show - Maya Angelou
  22. To a Man - Maya Angelou
  23. Freedon Suite [For Sonny Rollins and Franz Kline][#] - Amiri Baraka
  24. Crusoe's Island [#] - Derek Walcott
  25. Dahomey [#] - Audre Lorde
  26. In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. [#] - June Jordan
  27. Run Nigger - The Last Poets
  28. Admonitions - Lucille Clifton
  29. Nikki Rosa [#] - Nikki Giovanni
  30. Dance for Militant Dilettantes - Al Young
  31. Dear John, Dear Coltrane [#] - Michael Harper
  32. Rueben, Rueben [#] - Michael Harper
  33. My House [#] - Nikki Giovanni
  34. Flight to Canada [#] - Ishmael Reed
  35. Betty's Ball Blues [#] - Ishmael Reed
  36. Wounded in the House of a Friend [Set No. 2][#] - Sonia Sanchez
  37. Song No. 2 [#] - Sonia Sanchez
  38. Poem for Players [#] - Al Young
Music CD 2
  1. Muhammad Ali at the Ringside, 1985 [#] - Wole Soyinka
  2. Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane - Etheridge Knight
  3. Idea of Ancestry - Etheridge Knight
  4. Bang, Bang Outishly - Amiri Baraka
  5. Rhythim Blues - Amiri Baraka
  6. Shazam Doowah - Amiri Baraka
  7. End of Civilization as We Know It [#] - Colleen J. McElroy
  8. Cruelty (Continued) - Lucille Clifton
  9. Lucy (Pt. 6) (Continued) - Lucille Clifton
  10. Endangered Species List Blues [With the Firespitter Band] - Jayne Cortez
  11. I Live for My Car - Wanda Coleman
  12. Nigger Rhythm Rhymes from the Blues Part of Town, Pt. 4 - Wanda Coleman
  13. Lester Leaps in (Continued) - Al Young
  14. Poem for Magic - Quincy Troupe
  15. I Am She [#] - Nikki Giovanni
  16. Tuskegee Airfield [#] - Marilyn Nelson
  17. Facing It [#] - Yusef Komunuakaa
  18. Venus's-Flytraps [#] - Yusef Komunuakaa
  19. Rise up Fallen Fighters (Okra Takes up With a Rastafari Man/She ...) - Ntozake Shange
  20. Poem to Thrill the Naacp, or a Black Family Moves to the Suburbs [#] - Milton Smith
  21. Near-Johannesburg Boy (Continued) - Gwendolyn Brooks
  22. Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
  23. Helen [#] - Ethelbert Miller
  24. Helen and Martha [#] - Ethelbert Miller
  25. Martha and Helen [#] - Ethelbert Miller
  26. 1962: My Brother Richard Returns from the Monastery [#] - Ethelbert Miller
  27. Shakespeare Say [#] - Rita Dove
  28. After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time ... - Rita Dove
  29. Jamal's Lamentation [#] - Rueben Jackson
  30. Self Portrait, 1988 [#] - Rueben Jackson
  31. Barbie's Little Sister [#] - Allison Joseph
  32. Slaughter [#] - Kevin Young
  33. Nocturne [#] - Anthony Butts
  34. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy
  35. Project Princess [#] - Tracie Morris
  36. Ohm - Saul Williams
  37. No Black Male Show - Carl Hancock Rux

Music reviews of Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

Music Review: Audie Award Winner
Rating: 5 Stars

This CD set won the 2001 Audie Award for Poetry from the Audio Publishers Association. This is the ONLY national award for poetry on audio and, in winning, "Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers" beat some very hot competition, including movie stars (Al Pacino,Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, Ruby Dee, etc.) reading Shakespeare sonnets. In addition, the collection was awarded an Earphones Award from "AudioFile" magazine.

Description of Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers

A very smartly assembled two-disc compilation of African American poetry, Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers digs deep to unearth a wealth of unheard and rare material spanning almost the entire 20th century. The collection features some of the greatest names in black literature, and--as Al Young points out in the liner notes--it can be a revelation to hear, for instance, Harlem Renaissance leader Langston Hughes pronounce the word "Harlem" with utter pride and joy. Other notables include Ishmael Reed, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gil Scott-Heron, Maya Angelou, Rita Dove, W.E.B. DuBois, the Last Poets, Public Enemy, Wanda Coleman... You get the picture--it's sort of a greatest-hits of black spoken word. But it's too scattershot a set to be called definitive--anyone can bemoan the absence of this or that poet--but it is also a tremendously interesting document of hope and loss and rage and joy and perseverance--and, above all, remarkable poetry, works that each gain from the original authors' reading of their poem. Amiri Baraka's sonorous recitation of "Bang, Bang Outishly," a beat-era work dedicated to Thelonious Monk, is worth the price of admission by itself. --Mike McGonigal

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