{"id":43,"date":"2009-09-08T04:16:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-09-08T04:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T09:16:38","slug":"dvd-review-let-freedom-sing-how-music-inspired-the-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/08\/dvd-review-let-freedom-sing-how-music-inspired-the-civil-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Review: Let Freedom Sing &#8211; How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/images\/let_freedom_sing_dvd.jpg\" alt=\"Let Freedom Sing\" align=\"right\" height=\"375\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"268\" \/><em>Let Freedom Sing<\/em> is a 2009 DVD documentary that surveys the American civil rights struggle. That&#8217;s been done before, certainly. But this film puts a unique, refreshing and fascinating spin on the story by setting it against the backdrop of music. The film&#8217;s subtitle (How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement) says it all. From early sharecropper sing-alongs to <strong>Billie Holiday<\/strong> sides to 70s funk to <strong>Chuck D<\/strong>, <em>Let Freedom Sing<\/em> does an admirable job of covering both the civil rights struggle (up to this point, &#8216;cos, let&#8217;s face it: the struggle continues) and the music. In its roughly 100 minutes, the film hits the high points, manages to involve the viewer emotionally, and leaves the viewer wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily (and not at all coincidentally) there&#8217;s also a 3CD set of music available. Not strictly a companion piece, the <em>Let Freedom Sing<\/em> CD package (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/blast_from_the_past\/various_let_freedom_sing.shtml\">reviewed here<\/a>) is enjoyable on its own terms, as is this video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let Freedom Sing is a 2009 DVD documentary that surveys the American civil rights struggle. That&#8217;s been done before, certainly. But this film puts a unique, refreshing and fascinating spin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-review","cat-25-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}