Discussion Forum Week Five Initial post of at least 300 words (due by Thursday) and at least three responses to your classmates of at least 125 words due by Sunday Answer one of the following questions . You must also answer any follow-up questions asked by your instructor. 1. The Negro Spirituals have been called the only indigenous music of America. Do you agree with that statement? Why or why not? Provide evidence. 2. During the 1950s and 1960s, Motown Records and Staxx Records represented the two poles of soul music. How did the Motown and Staxx represent the belief of soul music by Black people for black people (Staxx) and soul music by Black people for mainstream (white) consumption? Provide examples. 3. In "The Sorrow Songs", W.E.B Du Bois argues the sorrow songs represented a black folk culture—with its origins in slavery—unadulterated by the civilizing impulses of a northern black church, increasingly obsessed with respectability and with Western aesthetic criteria (rules of beauty and acceptance). How has Black popular music (blues, soul, hip-hop) continued the tradition of the "sorrow song"? ...

1. Discussion Forum Week Five
Initial post of at least 300 words (due by Thursday) and at least
three responses to your classmates of at least 125 words due by
Sunday
Answer one of the following questions
.
You must also answer any follow-up questions asked by your
instructor.
1. The Negro Spirituals have been called the only indigenous
music of America. Do you agree with that statement? Why or
why not? Provide evidence.
2. During the 1950s and 1960s, Motown Records and Staxx
Records represented the two poles of soul music. How did the
Motown and Staxx represent the belief of soul music by Black
people for black people (Staxx) and soul music by Black people
for mainstream (white) consumption? Provide examples.
3. In "The Sorrow Songs", W.E.B Du Bois argues the sorrow
songs represented a black folk culture—with its origins in
slavery—unadulterated by the civilizing impulses of a northern
black church, increasingly obsessed with respectability and with
Western aesthetic criteria (rules of beauty and acceptance). How
has Black popular music (blues, soul, hip-hop) continued the
tradition of the "sorrow song"?