And Now They Call It Soul

Duration: 12:00

Creator: United States Information Agency

Complete Record: On a stage setting, hosted by Yvonne Barclay, a black woman wearing an African dress, bare breasted black young men play drums, a poem by Langston Hughes is heard, Yvonne speaks of the origins of black music - rhythms from Africa, chant by Leo Randall, Baptist spirituals & jubilee by Savannah Crowder and the New Southern Rock Baptist Choir sing “Steal Away to Jesus" - entire song is sung, gospel music inside church sung by the Congregation and Choir Temple Church of God in Christ, stills of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, blues sung (“There’s One Thing That I’ve Got - My Man") by June Norton in a sequined dress, ragtime played on piano by Jerry White (only white person in film and not just in name), gospel inside church stills and footage of women singing and clapping, some men and children too, Jazz: many, many still shots of Louis Armstrong & the All Stars as his rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In" plays, end with soul - Mahalia Jackson sings “Down By the Riverside" while young black women look on, credits reveal drums by Ujamma Drummers Friendship House.