Great point about the protest/work song roots of what came to be called blues. I hadn't thought of that as an influence that was made more explicit in later years. I associate songs like "Strange Fruit" with the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on later songwriters and poets, but of course those kinds of sentiments are much older than that.
It wasn't bad at all! But if it took some special skill to read it, it was a skill you probably have earned too, by reading lots of first-year student essays. Your comment was far easier to make sense of than some of those! As I recently wrote in the margins of a particularly garbled student paper: "I have no idea what this sentence means, but I know what you're trying to say."
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Great point about the protest/work song roots of what came to be called blues. I hadn't thought of that as an influence that was made more explicit in later years. I associate songs like "Strange Fruit" with the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on later songwriters and poets, but of course those kinds of sentiments are much older than that.
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It wasn't bad at all! But if it took some special skill to read it, it was a skill you probably have earned too, by reading lots of first-year student essays. Your comment was far easier to make sense of than some of those! As I recently wrote in the margins of a particularly garbled student paper: "I have no idea what this sentence means, but I know what you're trying to say."