1st draft

Oh Freedom

The Spiritual Trilogy Medley are three traditional songs that I think would mean the same to a African American who wanted freedom. The song I chose to write about is titled “Oh Freedom”; its a traditional song so no one knows who wrote it. I think it was sung in churches to pray to god for freedom; not just from the white mans injustice, not just from there sticks but from the body that they had to endure the white mans beating. It was sung at rallies or at protests to resist violence because its never easy to “turn the other cheek” when some one slaps you right on our face.
The song starts “oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me...”, I think who ever wrote when ever it was written the artist is calling freedom to come. I think the artist is so tired and sick from all the fighting that he cant make any physical play to obtain freedom so he wants freedom to come and surround him like clouds surround a crop field on a rainy day. So he goes on saying “...before I'll be slave, I'll be buried in my grave.

blog#2 Essay #1 Pre-Writing

1. i have selected the song "oh Freedom" from the Spiritual trilogy medley. my first reaction to the song was WOW and flash backs to when i learned about the civil rights movement in India. i already knew people was welling to give their lives for freedom. i knew people rather die than to be not free. i am selecting this song because it makes me realize how lucky we are that we have freedom and to realize to what extent a person can go to obtain his or her freedom.

blog#1 "What kinds of expression - music, writing, art, sports - mean the most to you and why

What kinds of expression - music, writing, art, sports - mean the most to you and why?

if some one is against someone or with something; i think even thou it is not practical or realistic; instead of protesting i would love a person from both parties to compete like real athletes do in a real competition. i know that's never going to happen in a real would, where problems cant be solved just by playing sports, so instead a sports invent can be a protest in its self. A athlete a winer or who competes can dedicate the what he or she doing to the couse of injustice that he or she thinks has happened or is happening to let the would know.

Bernice Johnson Reagon " how does she descrbes the relation ship between politics and music?"

Johnson describes the relationship between politics and music was simply a stand against violence. Not to react to violence with violence. it was spiritual stage where all you could see was freedom.