A Good Assassination Should be Quiet - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleA Good Assassination Should be Quiet - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):David Baker
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Mari Evans
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Assassinations; Civil Rights; Crimes; Death; Demise; Dreams; Exploding; Eyes; Good; Grief; Gross; Hard; Hearts; Heaven; History; Impious; Indelicate; Inequality; King, Jr., Martin Luther; Known; Mourning; Murder; Occupying; Public; Quiet; Racism; Rules; Sadness; Swinging; Throats; Transgressing; Violent; White; Years
Year of composition 1973 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/good-assassination-should-be-quiet/
Larger WorkThe Black Experience (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBlack Arts Movement (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerTenor
Range: C3 - Ab4 (Search)
Premiered ByWilliam Brown (Search)
Commissioned ByWilliam Brown (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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