These songs were called "folk songs," and although they were in English they still contains some African terms in them. ... Around the 1750s, slaves began to regularly, sing songs during work. ... In the late 1800s, enslavers want to covert slave to Christians and replace work songs and folk songs, with evangelical hymns This failed, but the negro spiritual was born; which were folk songs as "composition[s] performed with religious expression." ... Later, with work songs, they misinterpret several of the songs as revolt threats and eventually there were massive bans on certain types of songs....

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• Grade Level: High School

A suburbanite's nightmare. This was the Bronx. Adversity can lead to futility, or spawn creativity. As history has always shown, society's oppressed adapt, and make the best out of the worst situations. MCing, Grafitti, D-Jaying, and B-boying, were all created in the Bronx. All of these art forms wo...

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In the song Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac Shakur he raps "And since we all came from a woman, Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman I wonder why we take from our women, Why we rape our women, do we hate our women" When I think of rape and compare it to those lyrics it saddens me because women are the one to give birth to men and for some of these men to abuse women just shows the lack of appreciation for women in the world. ...

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