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Good Example First Verse
1,230 wordsIt is almost impossible to identify the author of a spiritual or to pinpoint its original form. Typically, spirituals are created by nonprofessional musicians, changed by other singers and passed along from one generation to the next. As the song is passed along it starts to change. The changes that take place become a part of the original song and eventually the music takes on a different form. Over the span of years the authors' names are forgotten. The composer who wishes to create a new spir...
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Underground Railroad Nova Scotia
1,166 words... ed all their songs by ear, they often strayed into wholly new versions, which sometimes became popular, and entirely banished the others. The second way writing a spiritual is to combine a variety of other hymns and spirituals to make a completely different song. The Staple Singers do exactly this in the song This Train. (found on tape. ) This train is bound for glory, this train. This train is bound for glory, this train. None goin to ride it but the rights and the holy. This Train bound fo...
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Black Music In America
1,065 wordsBlack Music in America: A History Through Its People Tahirah Carter by James Haskins Intro to Music I have definitely learned allot about the Evolution of American Music in this class. I found it to be very intriguing. So when I was faced with the chore of deciding which book I would do my report on, I chose Black Music in America by James Haskins. This book gave a detailed account of not only the music genres but its performers. We already know that American music is made up of music from many ...
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Life Of Frederick Douglass Life Of A Slave Girl
958 wordsNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Although the initial intention and development of the slave narratives was to reveal and examine slavery and justify its subsequent abolition, they contain important personal facts and judgments as well as folklore that not only assist in description of the actual historical picture but frame readers personal reflections through emotions and self-positioning. In other words, on the individual level, the audienc...
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James Weldon Johnson Civil Rights Leader
1,512 wordsHerman Beavers Johnson, James Weldon (17 June 1871 - 26 June 1938), civil-rights leader, poet, and novelist, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of James Johnson, a resort hotel headwaiter, and Helen Diet, a schoolteacher. He grew up in a secure, middle-class home in an era, Johnson recalled in Along This Way (1933), when " Jacksonville was known far and wide as a good town for Negroes" because of the jobs provided by its winter resorts. After completing the eighth grade at Stan...
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Oral Tradition Blues Songs
3,519 wordsStephen E. Henderson If the poet presents the blues through indirection in " Cabaret, " in " Memphis Blues" he presents them through the matrix of the oral tradition which helped to shape their growth. The poem partly draws upon the traditional notion of " preaching the blues" found in both music and oral literature, but significantly it is not a parody of the sermon but a brilliant exploration of the song-sermon form in which the blues are historically and formally...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar James Weldon Johnson
6,573 wordsOn " The Creation" And Gods Trombones Essay, On " The Creation" And Gods Trombones EXPLANATION: " The Creation" Line This version of the story of creation offers an image of God who is more like humans than traditional Old Testament portrayals of Him. God is sometimes referred to as " the uncaused cause" or " the prime mover, " indicating that the actions of God cannot be traced to any previous reason, as part of the definition of God. But Johnso...
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