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Thread #27332 Message #1531474
Posted By: Azizi
29-Jul-05 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Death Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Death Song - from rare African-Amer
Q, thanks for the source of that song. With that song and its use by racist individuals and groups, I rest my case about music {art} being used for more than entertainment purposes.
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M. Ed, as to your comment that "now we have Ebonics", who is "we"?
African American Vernacular English [which some call "Ebonics"] is a subject so complicated that it is worthy of discussion in this thread or a separate thread.
But I have neither the time nor the interest in addressing that subject.
For those who are interested in exchanging comments about the historical African roots and Southern USA roots of AAVE, and the validity and use of that language, I say "More power to you. Do you thing."
Azizi