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- Creator
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Views
- 44,527
- Video Title
- Fisk Jubilee Singers - "When I Was Sinkin' Down" [Official Audio]
- Description
- Listen to the official audio of the Fisk Jubilee Singers' "When I Was Sinkin' Down" from the 2008 album 'Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways' on Smithsonian Folkways. 'Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways' is available on CD and digital. Stream/download/purchase: Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/classic-african-american-gospel-from-folkways/music-sacred/music/album/smithsonian Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4YHubUKpTpxyDDr25iXW9Z?si=kT1YosisRwa417a9JTBSUA Spirituals, guitar evangelists, "shout" bands, quartets, and choirs sing out the sacred sounds of African American gospel music. This Smithsonian Folkways "Classic" spans over a half century of select recordings to paint a broad panorama of this cherished American musical creation. Reverend Gary Davis, Sister Ernestine Washington, Sonny Terry, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Elizabeth Cotten are among those featured on these 24 tracks of soulful song. Smithsonian Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianfolkwaysrecordings Twitter: https://twitter.com/Folkways Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithsonianfolkways The content and comments posted here are subject to the Smithsonian Institution copyright and privacy policy (www.si.edu/copyright). Smithsonian reserves the right in its sole discretion to remove any content at any time.
- Video Duration
- 2 min 35 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- music folk "Woody Guthrie" "Pete Seeger" Smithsonian Folkways old-time non-profit
- Uploaded
- 2009-04-09T17:19:40.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- smithsonianfolkways
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- YouTube Channel
- smithsonianfolkways
- YouTube Category
- Music
- Topic
- Cultural property
- Record ID
- yt_pGe-OB8wzXk
