All for Freedom - Sweet Honey in the Rock

The talented sextet use their beautifully harmonized voices in their call for freedom.

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Music details
  • Artist(s): Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Genre: Children's Music
  • Label: Music for Little People
  • Parental Advisory: No
  • Edited Version: No
  • Release Date: 10/27/1992

Parents need to know

Various aspects of African-American and African music and culture are presented—from the Civil Rights Movement to how a shekere (a percussion instrument) is made.

Explain the meaning of harmony (a combination of tones of different pitches performed at the same time) to your child. Then listen for the harmonies in "Ise Oluwa," a Yoruba song from Nigeria. It starts off with children singing one of the vocal lines before the harmonies enter--creating an excellent voice, language and culture lesson.

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Reviewed by Lisha Papert Lercari

Sweet Honey in the Rock is an a capella (all singing with no instruments) group made up of six African-American women (including a sign language interpreter). All of their albums provide cultural and social lessons.

The talented sextet use their beautifully harmonized voices in their call for freedom. In between the well-selected traditional and children's songs are the voices of kids talking about what freedom means to them. It is both touching and thought provoking. Thorough liner notes provide history and lyrics.

Sweet Honey in the Rock creates music to educate. The beauty of their voices makes the learning easy.

Is it any good?

4
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