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    This document summarizes a student's analysis of an African American spiritual song from the slavery era. The student paraphrased the song in their own words while trying to maintain the original meaning. They noted that repetition is important in spirituals to emphasize messages and elicit emotion. The student also explained how spirituals subtly challenged slavery through their lyrics and how masters missed these rebellious implications. Finally, they discussed how spirituals influenced later American musical genres like jazz, blues, and hip-hop through their meaningful messages and catchy rhythms.

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    This document summarizes a student's analysis of an African American spiritual song from the slavery era. The student paraphrased the song in their own words while trying to maintain the original meaning. They noted that repetition is important in spirituals to emphasize messages and elicit emotion. The student also explained how spirituals subtly challenged slavery through their lyrics and how masters missed these rebellious implications. Finally, they discussed how spirituals influenced later American musical genres like jazz, blues, and hip-hop through their meaningful messages and catchy rhythms.

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    This document summarizes a student's analysis of an African American spiritual song from the slavery era. The student paraphrased the song in their own words while trying to maintain the original meaning. They noted that repetition is important in spirituals to emphasize messages and elicit emotion. The student also explained how spirituals subtly challenged slavery through their lyrics and how masters missed these rebellious implications. Finally, they discussed how spirituals influenced later American musical genres like jazz, blues, and hip-hop through their meaningful messages and catchy rhythms.

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    Ashley Freundner

    AP Lang
    Ms. Moriconi
    09 Dec 2015
    Gathering a deeper understanding to these Sorrow Songs
    Comprehension: Paraphrase one of the Sorrow Songs in your own words, eliminating repetition
    and ambiguity whenever possible.
    I walk through the churchyard
    To lay this body down;
    I know moonrise, I know starrise;
    I walk in the moonlight, I walk in the starlight;
    I'll lie in the grave and stretch out my arms,
    I'll go to judgment in the evening of the day,
    And my soul and thy soul shall meet that day,
    When I lay this body down.
    In my own words
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    I walk through the churchyard to lay this body down. I know moon rise and star

    rise. I will lay in the grave and stretch my arms out and Ill go to judgment in the evening
    and my soul as well as your soul will meet that day
    What has been lost in my translation?
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    The meaning of this song would be lost in translation without the imagery and

    figurative language used in this song.


    Why is repetition central to many of the spirituals?

    Repetition is so central to so many of the spirituals because it allows the person

    who wrote the some or is singing the song to get whoever is listening to it so singing the
    song it will get the point across and get the person to think.
    What is the effect of repetition in the songs?
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    The effect of the repetition in the songs provokes thought from those listening to

    it and can get things to an emotional connection as well.


    Context: In his Narrative, Frederick Douglass points out that slave songs reveal "at once the
    highest joy and the deepest sadness." What does he mean by this? Explain how a duality of
    expression and purpose inflects these songs.
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    What Frederick Douglass means by slave songs reveal at one the highest joy and

    deepest sadness, he means that these song no matter how joyous allow those singing to
    be happy yet at the same time they are revealing what the saddest things about their lives
    are. The duality of the expression and purpose intends for the song to be catchy and have
    a large audience that I
    Context: How do the spirituals challenge and protest the institution of slavery? What is
    subversive in these songs? Why do you think white masters and mistresses for the most part
    missed the rebellious implications of this music?
    -

    The spirituals challenge and protest the institution of slavery by addressing the

    hardships that they are dealing with in their everyday lives. The most subversive thing
    about this songs is how the song is talking about laying someone down something dying.
    I think that the white masters and mistresses for the most part missed the rebellious
    implications of this music because they didnt think that these songs were anything more

    than religious and so they allowed them to sing as well as the fact that they were never
    actually in the fields where many slaves would be working and singing these songs.
    Exploration: Listen to a recording of one or more of the spirituals. How do you think these
    songs influenced the subsequent development of American musical culture? What is the
    relationship between these early African American songs and subsequent African American
    musical forms, such as jazz, blues, and hip-hop?
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    I think that these songs influenced the subsequent development of American

    musical culture because these songs spoke with a purpose and they had a rhythm to them
    that was catchy.
    - The relationship between these early African American songs and forms of music
    such as jazz, blues and hip-hop is that these forms of music and generated by individuals
    looking to spark emotion and have lyrics with meaning that evoke emotion in the ones
    listening to a song. The tone of the music is soothing in a way (especially for jazz and
    blues) and by having music like this is almost transports you into another world.

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