The Spirituals and Black Rhetoric
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THE PILGRIM OF SORROW--- We listened to three songs called "sorror songs": “I’ve Been Buked,” “Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel,” and “Fix Me, Jesus.”  How and why might we see this as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style?   What does this teach us about enslaved people's rhetoric of life and freedom? What were the FIRST Black college students conveying here* in choosing to sing these songs ? Who is Alvin Ailey in this first segment as a Black rhetor and why do you think that? How and why might we see these bodies and these movements also as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style?   If we think of Black Rhetoric as a Freedom Imagination, how does that show up here? ​
TAKE ME TO THE WATER--- After listening to the lyrics in Wade in the Water & I Wanna Be Ready, How and why might we see this as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style?   What does this teach us about enslaved people's rhetoric of life and freedom (note that "Wade in the Water" is considered an Underground Railroad song; "I Wanna Be Ready" is a hymn)? What are these Black college students at Fisk conveying here in choosing to sing these songs? Who is Alvin Ailey in this second segment as a Black rhetor and why do you think that? How and why might we see these bodies and these movements also as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style?   If we think of Black Rhetoric as a Freedom Imagination, how does that show up here? ​ ​
Move, Members, Move--- We listened to the lyrics in the four songs: Sinner Man, The Day is Past Gone, You May Run On, Rock O My Soul (note that three of these songs are remixes of the Spirituals). How and why might we see this as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style? What does this teach us about enslaved people's rhetoric of life and freedom? Why are remixes of the Spirituals so foundational to Black religious sound/music?  What does that have to do with Black Rhetoric? Who is Alvin Ailey as a Black rhetor in this third segment and why do you think that? How and why might we see these bodies and these movements also as Black Rhetoric in terms of content and/or style?   If we think of Black Rhetoric as a Freedom Imagination, how does that show up here?
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