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April is National Poetry Month. Discussion questions: Is all rap poetry? When is rap music poetry? When is it not poetry? #april, #nationalpoetrymonth, #poets, #poems, #rap, #blacks, #blackamericans, #culture, #music, #slavery, #oppression.
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/rLO-sBrVJuM. The song is "Ain't That Good News," by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. The narrator says, "The Negros took also their masters' Christian religion," as though... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/rLO-sBrVJuM. The song is "Ain't That Good News," by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. The narrator says, "The Negros took also their masters' Christian religion," as though any slave had a choice in how they thought or felt or saw the world as manufactured slaves. I disagree with the narration of this album, because it suggest that Christianity was a logical choice for Black American slaves rather than a weapon of social control. Yet, at the same time, I appreciate Voices Incorporated for preserving this music if it turns out to be authentic. I urge Black American artists of all kinds to preserve their folk culture from a Black American perspective and for a Black American audience for the sake of posterity in libraries and museums. This album was made about Black Americans, but for non-Black Americans and interpreted from a non-Black American perspective. Migration was forced. Sex with genocidal devils were forced. The loss of African language, religion, and culture was forced. Christianity was not a choice; it was weapon to make Black American slaves docile when they should have been killing their masters in their sleep to gain their freedom. Like Africa, Black Americans outnumbered whites for a period of time during formal slavery. What kept them from killing their masters and running away? (1) The psychological trauma of the Middle Passage, (2) the "seasoning process" which involves physical assault, battery, torture, rape, and sexual assault, (3) forced Christianity that beat a false, white, Jewish god into the heads of Black American slaves, teaching them to worship the entire Eurasian white race as a secular extension of the Christian faith. Read Slave Testimonies of actual Black American slaves in slavery and Prejudice and Your Child by Kenneth Clark. Slave testimonies confirm that the more religious a slave master is, the more evil, violent, sinful, and genocidal that "god-fearing" slave master is. The book by Kenneth Clark confirms what Black American slaves witnessed firsthand: the more religious a person is, the more prejudiced he/she is. See the movie, The God Who Wasn't There, on YouTube. The messengers of the Christian faith to Africa and to the Black American slaves they had created knew their god is fictional, not a historical person with magical powers. Today's Black American Christian ministers know that Jesus is not a historical person. Yet, Black American Christian ministers lie to their Black American congregations and partner with the non-Black majority to perpetuate a slave mentality among every successive generation of Black Americans. Black Americans will not have the will to defend themselves against all forms of genocide by the multiracial racist majority if they do not walk away from Christianity. Black Americans may not have had a choice for the past 400 years, but you have access to the exchange of information on social media and resources in public libraries now. There are books at the library under subject headings or keywords, "Jesus Christ historicity." Ask yourselves if it is logical to worship the god of an evil people, who enslaved you. If the messengers of Christianity to Black American slaves were racist, violent, evil criminals, wouldn't their god be just as evil too? Black American street artists need to preserve their folk arts just like this album does but from a Black American perspective. A Black American cultural renaissance is necessary to redefine the Black American identity apart from what non-Black Americans manufactured them to be by separating the good cultural adaptations to slavery by Black Americans from the self-destructive cultural adaptations to slavery imposed upon Black Americans by a multicultural racist majority. Black American folk culture from slavery is important to forming a positive group identity. #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #renaissance, #blackrenaissance, #blackamericanrenaissance. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/T-MRO0FjsFA. The song is "Work Song Medley" by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. I found a second album on Freegal and YouTube with Black American slaves' folk music, but it... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/T-MRO0FjsFA. The song is "Work Song Medley" by Voices Incorporated from the album, Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America. I found a second album on Freegal and YouTube with Black American slaves' folk music, but it is like a condensed musical introduction to Black American history from the slave ship to popular Black American musical expressions. The album has narrations in between the music as though it was intended for a non-Black American audience. Listen to the album and decide whether the album was made for Black American slave descendants or non-Black Americans. I don't like the idea that an album about Black Americans was designed specifically for non-Black-Americans, but I appreciate their preservation of Black American folk music. For those of you, who are street artists, you, too, can preserve Black American slaves' folk culture for sale to libraries and museums, so the rest of us can research it, analyze it, write about it, and enjoy it. #blacks, #music, #history, #slaves, #slave, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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Work Song Medley: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Bayeza · Voices Incorporated
Roots: An Anthology of Negro Music in America
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/gm3ZmgGxSbY. Listen to song, Voo Doo American, by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. There is not any competition in the performance of Black American slaves' folk culture today. A man is singing something unclear before mentioning "troubled water." If any of you can recall, Simon and Garfunkel sang a song, "Bridge over Troubled Waters." I wonder if they took that expression from a slave song. Maybe? Maybe not? I don't presume to know. I am just asking. If any of you know for sure, inform me. I have suggested that Black Americans spark a cultural renaissance focusing on Black American slaves' folk culture and to sell those reproductions of art, music, dance, etc. to libraries and museums for profit and/or for religious worship. One person has already shot down the suggestion as if everything else African-American leaders have been doing on our behalves has been working to our benefit. American Negro Slave Songs is the only album I can find on Freegal about Black American slave music. Maybe there are others. I am just letting Black American slave descendants know that Black American slaves' folk culture is a market with little or no competition. There should be money to be made here. Yes, I believe if something is not broken, we should leave it alone. However, African-American leaders, who are chosen, financed, and elected by whites and immigrants, have decided things for the Black American poor and under their leadership, social conditions for Black Americans in poverty never get better. Things are only getting worse. Most of us have heard the expression, "It is insane to repeat the same things over and over again and expect a different result." Most Black Americans use the same old solutions for the same old problems and expect a different result. Most Black Americans are unwilling to try new solutions for old problems. One has called me a reverse racist against Africans, stupid, uneducated, and ignorant for suggesting new solutions to old problems, because Afrocentrism simply is not working economically, politically, or culturally to the benefit of Black American slave descendants. Let Obama's election as the first half-white, African immigrant president be a testament to how well Afrocentrism is working for Black American slave descendants. Obama won by Black Americans' votes and then, told them they don't deserve reparations for slavery. Perhaps, sparking a Black American renaissance based upon the best aspects of slave culture could change the course of Black Americans' future if we studied it, reproduced it, sold it, and practiced it. There is money to be made in folk arts and culture by selling to libraries and museums. For those of us, who are practicing artists, please consider preserving Black American slave culture in the ways Alex Foster and Michael LaRue has done. I found their music on Freegal through my library and then, I looked it up on YouTube. #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #slave, #slaves, #slavery, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #folk, #folkmusic, #folkculture, #folkways. less
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Voo-Doo American · Alex Foster · Michel LaRue
American Negro Slave Songs (Digitally Remastered)
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Released on: 2009-11-24
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It took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American... moreIt took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American Negro Slaves by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. If you have a library card, you can download five songs per week from Freegal from the album, American Negro Slave Songs. Just an idea to those of you, who are musicians, dancers, and artists... Has it ever occurred to you to get your drum circle, dance troupe, and fellow artists together, research, preserve, and reproduce Black American slave songs, dances, instruments, clothing, crafts, and historic foodways to create a market by and for Black Americans, who are hungry for our own history? Any book, DVD, or CD you make about Black American historic culture in slavery will not sell to the masses like pop music, but it can be reviewed and marketed just for libraries where people preserve knowledge and need access to that information for posterity. I have listened to only one album, American Negro Slave Songs, on Freegal, but the singers sound inauthentic as though the ways they were singing or speaking were forced and unnatural. If they turn out to be white or mulatto, none of us can get mad, because at least they made an effort to preserve the slave music of our ancestors in American slavery while so many of us try to cover ourselves with African clothes, African music, African dance, and African languages and turn our backs on our Black American slave heritage as if it is something to be ashamed of. If you are an artist of some kind, please consider preserving Black American slave culture so a white person does not have to do it for us. #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #history, #folk, #folkmusic, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #culture, #folkways, #market, #economics. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/2VRSAVDlpDI. Listen to James Brown’s "Say it loud, I'm Black, and I'm proud.” I don’t know of any recent, famous Black singer, who is using his/her art to demand equality for Black American slave descendants. If you... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/2VRSAVDlpDI. Listen to James Brown’s "Say it loud, I'm Black, and I'm proud.” I don’t know of any recent, famous Black singer, who is using his/her art to demand equality for Black American slave descendants. If you know of any, please share a link with me of that person’s YouTube video. The African-American bourgeoisie is equally racist as non-blacks against the Black American poor. Once a Black person attains a level of wealth, prestige, and power, they distance themselves from Black Americans. They start calling themselves any number of names that remove the word, “Black,” from their identity. They will find a white or white ethnic spouse of some kind. Yet, when called upon by the white and immigrant media to speak on the behalves of Black Americans, their views are identical to those of racist whites and racist immigrants. If you know of any indie or unsigned Black American artists, who communicate political messages in their music, please share them with me. Thanks… In search of proud Black Americans… #blacks, #music, #politics, #history, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #art, #arts, #culture, #inequality, #injustice. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/5EO1nfSCKrU. Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "I Wanna Get Next To You," by Rose Royce. I have not seen the movie, Car Wash, for many years, but I believe this song was featured in it. This song is calm, cool, poetic, and... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/5EO1nfSCKrU. Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "I Wanna Get Next To You," by Rose Royce. I have not seen the movie, Car Wash, for many years, but I believe this song was featured in it. This song is calm, cool, poetic, and passionate. Do any of you know of any recent Black American singer, who can compare to this? Has anyone gone to any live Black American music performances for Black American History Month? Please reply with a link to that performer's YouTube video. Thanks... In search of Soul... #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #february, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/EYE5QEBOMA8, Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "Juicy Fruit," by Mtume. Someone messaged me in Facebook and said they would send me a YouTube video of a recent singer's song, he/she thinks compares to traditional R&B/Soul... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/EYE5QEBOMA8, Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "Juicy Fruit," by Mtume. Someone messaged me in Facebook and said they would send me a YouTube video of a recent singer's song, he/she thinks compares to traditional R&B/Soul music. When I get it, I will share it. I welcome recommendations to find recent singers, who has maintained traditional R&B/Soul music today. Thanks... In search of Soul... #blacks, #music, #history, #february, #culture, #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/n9yRGwRQ1xU. Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "Cry Together," by The O'Jays. The song talks about a relationship in trouble and needing communication. This song is very emotional and touches you personally. Has any of you... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/n9yRGwRQ1xU. Listen to classic R&B/Soul song, "Cry Together," by The O'Jays. The song talks about a relationship in trouble and needing communication. This song is very emotional and touches you personally. Has any of you attended any R&B/Soul concerts for Black American History Month? Share a link to that performer's YouTube video even if it is an indie musician or local band or singer. Thanks... In search of Soul... #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #history, #culture, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #soul, #soulmusic. less
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YouTube video: https://youtu.be/TPVk-m1Pr4s. Listen to this classic R&B/Soul song, "Clean Up Woman," by Betty Wright. The most famous line in the song is, "She's the one, who will take him when you dump him in the street." The song tells the story about... moreYouTube video: https://youtu.be/TPVk-m1Pr4s. Listen to this classic R&B/Soul song, "Clean Up Woman," by Betty Wright. The most famous line in the song is, "She's the one, who will take him when you dump him in the street." The song tells the story about a woman, who had neglected her man, and "made it easy for the "Clean Up Woman" to have an affair with her man. However, I don't see it that way. I interpret it as a man, making the choice to cheat on his girlfriend or wife. Women in supposedly committed relationships like to blame the "Other Woman" or in this song, blame themselves, when they really need to blame the man for cheating. Love doesn't last forever, but when one person wants to leave, he or she needs to break up their current relationship in order to move on to someone else. I don't agree with everything in Betty Wright's songs. Many of the things she says sounds sexist or outdated from a feminist perspective. Yet, by the end of this song, she also sounds like she intends to break up with the man for cheating. I just love her sound and her voice. She sounds like she is singing from her Soul. She may really believe the things she sings about in her songs. Even if you don't agree with everything she says, the song touches you personally. You can hear the frustration in the story of a woman, who blames herself for creating an emotional opening in her man's heart for another woman. What recent R&B/Soul songs or Black American singers do you know of who writes and sings emotional songs like this? If you know of any, please share a link with me to that person's YouTube video, so I can listen to that person's song. I am open to indie R&B musicians. Thanks... In search of Soul... #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #culture, #history, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #soul, #soulmusic. less
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Empress NyYahri Yisra'EL Rap is poetry when it touches the soul to some degree. Its not poetry when they make up stuff that doesnt make sense at all. Poor English with no meaning etc.
