User:Tom Morris/The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music

The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music is a five-disc compilation of the history of black American musical culture created by the singer–songwriter Harry Belafonte. The compilation contains 80 different tracks and covers genres including blues and negro spirituals, as well as Louisiana creole music, and music from Gullah performers from the Georgia Sea Islands.

Belafonte came up with the idea of putting the collection together during the civil rights movement in the late 1950s to make the history of black mode widely available and to "provoke an appetite to know more". In putting the collection together, Belafonte did a lot of research in the Library of Congress before inviting artists to record for the album in between 1961 and 1971.

The album was not released for another 30 years, until 2001...

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