My research class has required me to ask a question within a group
and
receive feedback in place of a research project. I, therefore, have
decided to ask a question updating the feelings of an ongoing issue
among musical cultures in America, 'songs of one race being sung by
another race'. The question is not limited to a specific race;
therefore, I am hoping to receive feedback from all backgrounds.
Long version:
Prior to the formation of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, white musicians
were performing most black music, so it took a while for audiences to
accept the talent of black performers like them. Since new
arrangements of the negro spirituals has been developed as a
cultivated solo art form called the Negro folk song (by writers like
H. T. Burleigh, Moses Hogan, and poets like Langston Hughes) they are
now open to performers and composers outside of the Black race. In
other words, these composers put a more classical taste to the music.
After slavery, African Americans were not happy about their music
being performed by anyone other than there race. Today, do you see
that same feeling of anger or a slight feeling of anger when a person
of another race performs these arranged songs of oppression? And why?
Short Version:
After slavery, African Americans were not happy about their music
being performed by anyone other than there race. Today, do you see
that same feeling of anger or a slight feeling of anger when a person
of another race performs these songs of oppression? And why?
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