TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin Kersten
PY  - 2011
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783640801961
TI  - How important were spirituals & folk songs for the life of enslaved African Americans in the antebellum South?
DO  - 10.3239/9783640801961
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/164989
N2  - Every study of the culture of black people in America inevitably reveals statements about the relationship between black and white Americans. In this essay this will not be a side effect but intended. On the following pages I want to put up the question whether spirituals – songs of black Christian Afro-Americans – can be simply seen as sorrow songs (as stated above) that only had one aim: to create a platform for black people to express their feelings, fears and their pain; or whether those songs can be interpreted as a motor for the black mass to draw the attention on the deficiency of a whole community, and eventually to achieve cultural, social and political changes. The subject of my investigation, then, is the social function of black music in America before the Civil War.
KW  - spirituals, songs, work songs, arbeitslieder, afro, schwarze, bürgerkrieg, usa, südstaaten
LA  - English
ER  -