Voices Of The Civil Rights Movement Sealed Freedom Songs 1960-1966 Smithsonian
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Vinyl: Mint! Sealed! This is the Super Rare Original 1980 Smithsonian Institution 1st Pressing! The 3 LP Box Set includes a detailed Booklet. The LPs are divided into Meeting songs, Songleaders and Ensembles. Very difficult to find these historic recordings on Vinyl, let alone New/Sealed. This is the only sealed boxset of these recordings on eBay. Rare recordings from Fannie Lou Hamer, Bettie Mae Nikes, Willie Peacock, the SNCC Freedom Singers, and many more. See Review Below!
Cover: Mint! Sealed!! (see photos; tiny tears in shrink on back; small dent on back cover) Also, the record box appears straight; when I look down with one eye down all 4 edges there's no big, ominous bow to it that would suggest that it's warped.
I will gladly accept the return of Sealed records as long as they have not been opened (i.e. as long as they are still in the condition I sent them in). Every record has a "fingerprint" of imperfections in the seal and/or the cover and I separately photograph and keep these details to prevent fraudulently returned items...yep, there are a few rotten apples out there!) I will not accept a previously sealed record that has been opened, even if the complaint is that the record is warped. This is why I look down the edge of all 4 sides of the record, to assess for potential bowing. Look for that in the description of the covers of all my Sealed items. Thanks! By the way, I've never (knock on wood!) had a buyer complain that they received a warped Sealed record. :)
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.
First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer.
On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
When Lyndon Johnson wanted to signal both Congress and the nation that he was determined to pass civil rights legislation, he declared, "we shall overcome." Quoting a well-known "freedom song," Johnson demonstrated how powerfully these songs worked on the national conscience. The re-release of Voices ofthe Civil Rights Movement reminds us anew of how central music was to the movement's success. This two-disc set is a wide-ranging selection ofrecordings made at mass meetings, as well as some made by more formal vocal ensembles. Bernice Johnson Reagon's extensive liner notes explain how black vernacular traditions melded with the struggle's demands to create a unique body of song. Her selections amply display the movement's creative breadth, encompassing both the spoken and the sungword. Thus, we hear not only songs, but chants and sermons as well. Simply reading about how music enlivened and emboldened the movement's participants is not enough. This set fully recaptures the power and righteousness of those "marching on to freedom land." This boxset documents a central aspect of the cultural environment of the Civil Rights Movement, acknowledging songs as the language that focused people's energy. These 43 tracks are a series of musical images, of a people in conversation about their determination to be free. Many of the songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches, where people from different life experiences, predominantly black, with a few white supporters, came together in a common struggle. These freedom songs draw from spirituals, gospel, rhythm and blues, football chants, blues and calypso forms. The enclosed booklet written by Bernice Johnson Reagon provides rare historic photographs along with the powerful story of African American musical culture and its role in the Civil Rights Movement. "The music of the spirit with the history of the flesh." — New York Daily News
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