Reviews for Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Poetry, Humor and Drama, 1908-1947

The average rating for Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Poetry, Humor and Drama, 1908-1947 based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-26 00:00:00 Lcc C. May This was incredibly disappointing. I wanted to hear the voices of people like Langston Hughes and Booker T. Washington, but the recording quality was so poor that much of it was unintelligible. That might have been unavoidable, but it is unforgivably sloppy that whoever put this compilation together failed to provide any introductions. There is no way of knowing to whom you are listening. Don't bother.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-27 00:00:00 Daniel Lemieux A lot of the recordings were pretty poor and difficult to understand through all the static. My favorite recording was the first of Booker T. Washigton's speech about casting down your bucket here mainly because I didn't know there were any recordings of him!! After reading his work, it was surreal to hear his voice across time. Same with Langston Hughes. The rest of this selection of works was just ok. Very dated and difficult to understand. The selection of works was odd. One second you had Langston Hughes, the next some comedian. It does give a bit of perspective into the mindset of 1900-1940s Americans to actually hear what their entertainment sounded like. I agree with a previous reviewer, it would've been nice to hear an introduction before each recording so I would know what on earth I was listening to instead of it just skipping to the next.