Back in the days, the African American people were using vernacular as a way to express their own history, their own life, their own pain as they were taking away from their countries and family from the Europeans to become slaves. The vernacular, means “ belonging to, developed in, and spoken or used by the people of a particular place, religion, or country; native; indigenous” ( The vernacular tradition. Part 1, pg 6). In consists with the church songs, blues, ballads, stories and hip-hop, work songs, secular songs, dances, stage shows and visual arts. Each one of these categories somehow are related to each other as an example, same topic, but others time they have different meaning behind the words. As shown in the following two categories of the
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The blues are an African American song whose verses expresses lament, injustice or loneliness. Both the Spirituals and the Blues, are songs sung by the African American during slavery. The two shared the same circumstances or history, but the time on when those songs were written. The Spiritual called “ City Called Heaven” and the Blues “ Trouble in Mind” both have some similarities and some differences. The similarities shared between the spirituals and the blues are quite broad. It depends on the point of view that you are reading it. The two are written by African Americans. Expresses the same feelings, the dark pain that they “the slaves” are suffering. The true history behind their faces. To start the spiritual song “City Called Heaven”, at first it seems that it is just a guy, who is feeling lonely and who miss his mother,whom is in heaven, talking about sad feelings. However, all of this is true, the real meaning of this song is how he is feeling about being kidnaped by the Europeans and be brought to another country without his consent. In the sentence “I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow”, this first sentence of the passage describes how sorrow, melancholy and
The blues are an African American song whose verses expresses lament, injustice or loneliness. Both the Spirituals and the Blues, are songs sung by the African American during slavery. The two shared the same circumstances or history, but the time on when those songs were written. The Spiritual called “ City Called Heaven” and the Blues “ Trouble in Mind” both have some similarities and some differences. The similarities shared between the spirituals and the blues are quite broad. It depends on the point of view that you are reading it. The two are written by African Americans. Expresses the same feelings, the dark pain that they “the slaves” are suffering. The true history behind their faces. To start the spiritual song “City Called Heaven”, at first it seems that it is just a guy, who is feeling lonely and who miss his mother,whom is in heaven, talking about sad feelings. However, all of this is true, the real meaning of this song is how he is feeling about being kidnaped by the Europeans and be brought to another country without his consent. In the sentence “I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow”, this first sentence of the passage describes how sorrow, melancholy and