Rating : - History-based discussion on the Power of Song in the African American community
From back cover:
(1991)

"Bill Moyers joins Bernice Johnson Reason for a celebration of the power of song -- the music an singing that continue to preserve and transmit the spiritual strength of the African-American culture.

Reagon, the founder and artistic director of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, is also an activist, scholar, and curator at the Smithsonian Institution. In this video she demonstrates her belief that "when we sing, we announce our existence. Singing is running this sound through your body. You cannot sing a song and not change your condition."

Reagon trances the history of communal singing and the repertoire rooted in the Black church -- from songs of resistance, courage, and pride to songs of determination of faith -- and explores their roles from the Underground Railroad through the Civil Rights Movement and into the 90s."