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The gospel
Oh freedom
I have a dream
Get up stand up
Interview to an ex slave that now is free
Approfondimento sugli schiavi
THE GOSPEL
Gospel is the most popular spiritual kind of music survived until today; it was sung in
the schools and in the chores of all the Anglo-Saxon world.
This music has a direct bond with Africa: the African music is different from the
European music because in the African tradition doesn’t exist the laic music. Other
African features are the use of drums and percussions for a rhythmic combination.
The word Gospel refers all the forms of religious afroamerican.
THE SLAVERY AND GOSPEL
The owners of the plantations to keep calm their slaves allowed them to sing their
music, this gave birth to a new genre of afro-american music: the gospel: that
blended the traditional African armony with the Christian religions topics.
The church became a shine for the manifestation of a black slaves. In the cotton and
tobacco plantations the “Shouts of the fields” calmed down the exertion of hard
work.
The slavery in the North was concentrated in the factories, but the gospel was born
in the South states where there was more density of slaves.
A lot of gospel songs influenced the religions and popular music of the white
Americans men. At the beginning of the 19th century the slaves began to do
performances for their masters.
OH FREEDOM
Testo della canzone
Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord and be free
No more moaning, no more moaning, no more moaning over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord and be free
No more cying, no more crying, No more crying over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord and be free
There'll be singing, there'll be singing, there'll be singing over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord
There'll be glory, there'll be glory, there'll be glory over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord
Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me
And before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave
And go home to my lord and be free
Traduzione
Oh libertà, oh libertà, oh libertà sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Niente più lamenti, niente più lamenti, niente più lamenti sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Niente più pianti, niente più pianti, niente più pianti sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Ci saranno canti, ci saranno canti, ci saranno canti sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Ci sarà gloria, ci sarà gloria, ci sarà gloria sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Oh libertà, oh libertà, oh libertà sopra di me
E prima di essere uno schiavo, io sarò seppellito nella mia tomba
E andrò a casa dal mio Signore e sarò libero
Commento
This song talks about the desire of freedom and the dream to be happy; slaves are
longing to improve their condition.
Freedom is expressed in words, repeated in the song, like: "Go home to my lord and
be free", "before i'd be a slave i'll be buried in my grave".
The song is divided in two part: the first is about their pain in their slave life, but their
hope to be free.
The second part talk abut their free life after their life as a slave and you can see the
change of the moods, because in the second part there's happiness and you can
see this thing with these words: "there will be singing", "And will be free", "there will
be glory" and the words about their pain are: "moaning", "crying", "buried" and
"grave".
We think is a beautiful song and the message inside it is very strong and important:
freedom is the key for a good life "home/glory/singing" if you are free,
"grave/moaning/crying” if are not.
“I HAVE A DREAM”
Io ho un sogno: che un giorno questa nazione si alzerà e vivrà fino in fondo il vero
significato del suo credo. Noi riteniamo che questa verità sia evidente: che tutti gli
uomini sono stati creati uguali.
Io ho un sogno: che un giorno sulle rosse colline della Georgia, figli di coloro che
erano schiavi e i figli di coloro che possedevano schiavi, si siederanno insieme al
tavolo della fratellanza.
Io ho un sogno: che un giorno perfino lo stato del Missisipi,uno stato desertico, che
soffoca nel fuoco della sua ingiustizia e oppressione, si trasformerà in un oasi di
libertà e giustizia.
Io ho un sogno: che i miei figli un giorno vivranno in una nazione dove loro non
verranno giudicati per il colore della loro pelle, ma per la qualità del loro carattere.
Io ho un sogno: che un giorno lo stato dell’Alabama,dove le labbra del suo
governatore dicono parole di annullamento, sarà trasformato in una situazione dove
i bambini e le bambine di colore potranno tenersi per mano con i bambini e le
bambine bianchi, e cammineranno insieme come fratelli e sorelle.
Io ho un sogno oggi.
Io ho un sogno: che un giorno ogni valle sarà esaltata, che ogni collina o montagna
saranno umiliate, che ogni luogo aspro diventerà pianeggiante e ogni posto contorto
diventerà rettilineo;e la gloria del Signore sarà a tutti rivelata e tutte le razze la
vedranno insieme.
This dream has become real only in part. We have still much to do. We think this
dream is very hard to become real but we must try.
This is a beautiful speech: the word DREAM has got a positive meaning: everyone
has his own dream but here involves all the mankind to reach a brotherhood.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Martin Luther king jr. was born on January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. For many
years after the abolition of slavery, Afro-Americans were still considered second
class citizens. They color not eat at the same table as white people, go to the same
school or sit on the same buses. This was segregation. In 1963 Martin Luther
organized a civil rights march in Washington DC and more than 200,000 people
came. Here he made his famous speech, “I have a dream”. He was assassinated in
1968when he was in the town of Memphis, Tennessee.
Get up stand up
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Non arrendetevi
Predicatore, non raccontarmi
Che il Paradiso è sottoterra
So che non sai
Quel che vale davvero la vita
Non è tutto oro quel che luccica
Metà della storia non è mai stata narrata
Così ora che vedete la luce
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Non arrendetevi
La maggior parte della gente pensa
Che il Bene scenderà dal Cielo
Porterà via ogni cosa
E renderà tutti felici
Ma se capiste quanto vale la vita
Badereste alla vostra su questa terra
E ora che avete visto la luce
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi (Sì sì)
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti (Oh)
Alzatevi, ribellatevi (Alzatevi, ribellatevi)
Non arrendetevi (La vita è un vostro diritto)
Alzatevi, ribellatevi (Quindi non possiamo arrenderci)
Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti (Signore Signore)
Alzatevi, ribellatevi (Il popolo continua a lottare)
Non arrendetevi (Sì)
Siamo esasperati dal vostro facile gioco ruffiano
Morire e andare in Paradiso nel nome di Gesù
Sappiamo e comprendiamo
Che Dio Onnipotente è un uomo vivente
Talvolta potete ingannare un po\'di gente
Ma non potete ingannare tutto il popolo tutto il tempo
E ora che abbiamo visto la luce (Cosa farete?)
Noi ci ribelleremo per i nostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi-Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi-Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi-Ribellatevi per i vostri diritti
Alzatevi, ribellatevi
Non arrendetevi
COMMENTO:
The test of Bob Marley contains a lots of emblems of rebellion, or of struggle. For
example in the refrain you can find “Get up, Stand up” many times, and this means
that Bob wants to tell us; (don’t give up) that he hopes things can change. We have
seen many videos of Bob when he singing this song and we can realize that
emotion shines through him. We like this song because in its text we can realize
what a nice person Bob Marley was; it is a message for everybody to fight for a
better life, but above all for men’s rights.
INTERVIEW TO AN EX SLAVE THAT NOW IS FREE
Interviewer: Are you happy now be free?
Tom: Yes, it does not seem true!
Interviewer: Were you born free or already slave?
Tom: I was born slave.
I: How many hours did you work every day?
Tom: I worked from sunrise to sunset without break.
I: What happened if you stopped at work?
Tom: You came lash.
I: What did you collect in the field?
Tom: Where I worked we collected cotton whereas, on the other side of plantation,
they collected tobacco.
I: How did the owner behave whit you and the other slaves?
Tom: The owner treated us like animals and, when we saw him from a distance, we
begun immediately to shudder.
I: Did you have a hut for all the family or all the slaves lived in one place?
Tom: There were a lot of huts in which lived 5 families each one.
I: Have you ever gone to the owner's house to do a work?
Tom: I have never gone there, but my sister always went because she worked there
as a maid.
I: Did you ever feel abhor for the owner or for his sons?
Tom: Yes, to both, especially to the kids, considering that while I worked hard they
played under my eyes.
I: There was solidarity between the slaves?
Tom: Yes, we was like a big family.
I: Did you have any brothers or sisters? If yes, some of then was sold?
Tom: Yes, I had two brothers and one sister but they haven't sold anyone
I: What was the most rich dish that you have ever eaten before being free?
Tom: One time, for Christmas, we ate meat and potatoes.
I: Did you ever think about a better place?
Tom: Before the travel never, because I thought that the slavery was a normal thing,
wanted from God, or at least the owner told us.
I: Have you ever felt rage about “the God's will about slavery”?
Tom: No because my mother always repeated me that was wrong criticize the God's
will.
I: When did you “have decide” to leave for freedom? Why? Did you receive help
from a guide?
Tom: We had decide to left when in our village arrived Joe, the guide. He told us that
in reality the slavery is not from God wanted and he convinced us to left towards
north to the liberty.
I: Did you never hear talking about Harriet?
Tom: Before the travel no, but the first time I've heard her story, I thought her an
attractive woman, with a big fighting spirit.
I: Did some of your relative die on the travel?
Tom: Fortunately no.
I: Did you have meet problems during the travel?
Tom: During the travel, there was a day when some farmers understood that we was
fugitive slaves and they were going to capture us, but fortunately at the end we were
able to escape.
I: Did you ever think about going back during the travel?
Tom: Yes, I lost the hope so many time, but with the God's help I found it.
I: Did you believe in a God?
Tom: I have always been Christian-Protestant.
APPROFONDIMENTO SUGLI SCHIAVI
Who are they?
The North-American slaves were African people sold by slave merchants to
landowners.
The slave trade
A lot of European nations were involved in the slave trade, but from the 18th century
England had the monopoly on this trade. Slaves were sold from merchants to
landowners to be used as servants or collectors in the plantations of colonies. The
first colony of North-America, Virginia, bought the first slaves in the 1619. Slavery
spread principally in zones where there were very fertile lands right for plantations of
tobacco, cotton, sugar and coffee. Slaves were used to collect manually these
products.
How was their life?
They were transported and treated as if they were goods, from one place to another,
sold like objects; bought and exploited. They travelled on ships, hundreds at a time.
Travels last months and at the arrive many of them were dead and the rest were
slaves. Their life conditions in plantations were very bad, they were treated with
brutality by their owners: in case of revolts they could be whipped, mutilated,
branded or even executed. Education was not allowed.
Who fought for them?
For slaves have fought: John Fitzgerald Kennedy;
King; SCLC and NAACP.
Malcolm X;
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
He was born on January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. For many years after the
abolition of slavery, Afro-Americans were still considered second class
citizens. They couldn’t eat at the same table with white people, go to the same
schools or sit on the same buses. This was segregation. Martin Luther King thought
that the answer was to demonstrate peacefully, he organized “Non-violent” marches
in Washington D.C. Here he made his famous speech “I HAVE A DREAM”. He was
awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964 to honour his courageous work.
In 1964 racial discrimination became illegal. He was assassinated in 1968 when he
was in the town of Memphis, Tennessee. He was only 39 years.
Non-violent marches
Martin Luther King to fight slavery organized “non-violent” marches and protests. At
that time the “March for jobs and freedom” was the largest that Washington had ever
had in its long history.
It was not only limited to this, but made precise demands: end of racial segregation
in schools, effective lawmaking on the issue of civil rights, protection from police
brutality for activists, a salary minimum of $ 2 per hour for all workers and a selfgoverning body for Washington D.C.
The Martin Luther King message
Martin Luther King in his “I have a dream” speech, wanted to convey a message of
peace. In fact, he repeated several times that he imagines a world without distinction
of race, discrimination and wars, a world of peace. Martin wanted people to be
judged by their inner qualities and not for their colour. He wanted a world in which
people lived in peace and harmony and where his children could sit at the same
table with white people without being dispraised for their race. With “his children” he
intended all men.