The Poetry of Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker was one of the most respected poets not only in the African American community but in America at large. Walker’s poems were first published in the 1930s when she was still a teenager and from there her popularity only grew. Walker’s poems tend to focus on themes surrounding Black culture such as her Ballad for Phyllis Wheatley which has enormous historical significance in the Black community and is featured on this collection.
Track Listing
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101
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Ballad for Phyllis Wheatley | Margaret Walker | 2:24 | |
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102
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Harriet Tubman | Margaret Walker | 7:04 | |
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103
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The Ballad of the Free | Margaret Walker | 2:52 | |
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104
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Ballad of Hoppy Toad | Margaret Walker | 3:38 | |
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201
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Epitaph for My Father | Margaret Walker | 14:45 | |
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202
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Jackson, Mississippi | Margaret Walker | 4:00 | |
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203
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We Have Been Believers | Margaret Walker | 3:30 | |
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204
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For My People | Margaret Walker | 5:54 |
Album Info
Folkways Suggests
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Margaret Walker Reads Margaret Walker and Langston HughesMargaret Walker
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Chaucer: Readings from Canterbury TalesVictor L. Kaplan
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From the ArchivesWill to Adorn from Smithsonian Folkways -
From the ArchivesSounds of the American Blues -
From the ArchivesSounds of the Civil Rights Movement -
From the ArchivesPeople's Picks: A Dissident Gardens Audio Companion by Jonathan ...
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From the ArchivesMusic in Poetry: Ballad and Blues Stanzas -
From the ArchivesSay It Loud: African American Spoken Word -
From the ArchivesVoices of Struggle: The Civil Rights movement, 1945 to 1965