Thursday, February 21, 2013

Journal : Thursday 2-21-13

Alan Lomax recordings 
Early in the Mornin'



Question : What elements about this performance let you know that the men are suffering?

Bonus : What song would you sing if you were forced into slavery?

14 comments:

  1. Well I don't really know , ummm I can't really understand what they are singing, it sounds more like yelling . Or that they are tired , or annoyed , they are obviously not happy .

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  2. the sound of pick axes in the background, them not being in harmony with each other, and they just sound unhappy.

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  3. The way they sing it lets you know that they are not that happy

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    1. The tone on their voice gives off a sad and scared feeling.

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  4. The uneven singing, The pick axes, sounds like forced labor to me.
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  5. with the tone of their voice and the pickaxes in the background you are able to tell that they are not happy

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  6. The tone and feel of the music. You can hear the pain in their voices. They also become out of breath.

    Bonus: I can't really think what I would sing if I were a slave. Not sure singing would come to my mind.

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  7. You can tell they're suffering because you can hear it in their voices. The pain and sorrow is very evident in the way their singing. They sound sad. It's hard to explain it any further, but sometimes you'll hear moaning.

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  8. when thy sing and the pitch go up the down and it sound like a moan and the uneven sound

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  9. Actually I didn't realize the men were in distress it just sound like weirdness to me.

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  10. the uneven pitch of the singing gives a grieving feeling to the men.

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  11. Well this isn't recorded in a studio this was probably recorded using a recorder of some type. You can obviously tell the distress these men are in due to the axes hitting the ground and the hard breathes taken by the men singing. Another way to tell are the men are not really singing as a chorus they are sending a message to each other in a way the slave masters wouldn't understand.

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