“PECULIAR INSTITUTION”= SLAVERY North: industrialization South: plantations Growing separation bt their needs

● Invention of the cotton gin (end 1700) : ● from 138,000 pounds of cotton a year > to 1,600,000 pounds a year ● The South becomes rich!

THE SOUTH AND THE PLANTATION IDEAL ● Country gentlemen ● Honor, honorable warfare ● Chivalry ● “Southern belle” like Scarlett O'Hara ● at the same time... ● “Slave codes” (for slaves reading, writing, meeting, voting, marrying, standing as witness, etc.=forbidden) ● Limitation of human and civil rights for free Afro-Americans

● For African Americans resistance often took the forms of resilience... ● > expression in music, spirituality and oral culture ● became central ● - identification with the Jews and their struggle; “call and response” pattern as form of interaction with the community (Let my people go) ● - dream of an easy world, without labor (Rosie) ● - mourning songs depicting the shared destiny of being dispossessed, without a name or a hope (Another man done gone) ● - blues and jazz songs (repetition of musical phrases like the repetition of pain / call and response pattern with the instruments / “blues”: kind of unrest, dissatisfaction, ennui / dancing rhythm signals the energy and will to give vent and move on)

When Israel was in Egypt's land Let my people go Oppressed so hard they could not stand Let my people go Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land Tell ol' Pharaoh, Let my people go. Thus saith the Lord, bold Moses said, Let my people go, If not, I'll smite your first-born dead, Let my people go. Go down... No more shall they in bondage toil, Let my people go, Let them come out with Egypt's spoil, Let my people go. Go down... Let my people go A

ROSIE Be my woman gal I'll Be your Man (x3) Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand In your hand lordy, in your hand Everydays Sunday dollar in your hand Stick to the promise girl that You made me (x3) Won't got married til' uh I go free I go free lordy, I go free Won't got married til' uh I go free Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2) *When She walks she reel and Rocks behind (x2) Aint that enough to worry, convicts mind (x2) Whoa Rosie, hold on gal (x2) A

Another man done gone Another man done gone Another man done gone From the country farm Another man done gone. He had a long chain on He had a long chain on He had a long chain on From the country farm Another man done gone. I didn't know his name I didn't know his name I didn't know his name They did him just the same Another man done gone. He killed another man He killed another man He killed another man From the country farm Another man done gone. Another man done gone Another man done gone Another man done gone From the country farm Another man done gone. Another man done gone c

Well, good morning blues, blues how do you do I'm doing all right well, good morning how are you. I lay down last night, turning from side to side Oh Lord, I was turning from side to side I wasn't sad, I was just dissatisfied. When I got up this morning, blues walking ‘round my bed, Oh Lord, the blues walking 'round my bed When I went to eat my breakfast, the blues was in my bread. Well good morning blues, blues how do you do. Well, good morning blues, blues how do you do. I'm doing all right, well, good morning how are you. Good morning blues, blues how do you do X_c8

What did I do to be so black and blue Old empty bed...springs hard as lead Feel like ol’ Ned...wished I was dead What did I do...to be so black and blue Even the mouse...ran from my house They laugh at you...and scorn you too What did I do...to be so black and blue I'm white...inside...but, that don't help my case ’cause I...can't hide...what is in my face (jazzman sounds) How would it end...ain't got a friend My only sin...is in my skin What did I do...to be so black and blue (instrumental break) How would it end...ain't got a friend My only sin...is in my skin What did I do...to be so black and blue vDm1lomVHU

Obama's acceptance speech (call and response pattern): d