Briefly discuss the adaptation of the civil rights song We Shall ...

[melina_rosy]

Briefly discuss the adaptation of the civil rights song We Shall Overcome from an indigenous African American tradition to a civil rights song.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Compare and contrast the life and times of Bob Dylan to that of Woody Guthrie.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[bd5255]

Answer to Question 1

1) African American hymnodist C. Albert Tindley based We Shall Overcome on the church song I'll Overcome Some Day.

2) Used for protest in 1945 by union workers in Charleston, South Carolina.

3) theme song of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee

4) introduced into the civil rights movement

Answer to Question 2

- Guthrie (career emerged in the 1930s and 1940s)
1) never consciously adopted a style
2) not stylistically aware
3) did not change his style
- Dylan (career emerged in 1960s)
1) adopted his style
2) changed his style many times
3) absorbed many influences