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