The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138368   Message #3166902
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
08-Jun-11 - 01:15 AM
Thread Name: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
Subject: RE: Singing a song in first person- racial issue
"I would suggest that when we sing "Negro" songs that are written in "dialect," we're better off to sing them in Standard American English."

Joe, I 'speck thass whut Ah'm gwine ter do too, if'n Ah'm a-gwine ter be singin' enny ob dem kind 'er songs.
An' also when Ah reads Bre'r Rabbit.