The Vernacular Tradition of the African American

The Vernacular Tradition of the African American. You are expected to use the material found in the text books. Other resources are encouraged but not necessary.
2. Respond to all questions. Specific references and quotes from the text books are required in responding to the assignments.
Assignments:
Question #1:
(a) Using the Spiritual Go Down Moses and the Gospel Freedom in the Air, analyze how the Black Vernacular Traditions address and depict issues of physical, psychological and spiritual bondage and the corresponding freedom.
(b) Why then, are the above forms of The Vernacular Tradition considered Sacred (religious) Renditions?
Question #2:
(a) Using G.I. Townsel's sermon: The Way Out Is to Pray Out, compare and contrast the recorded performance (audio) to the written script in terms of the characteristics of The Vernacular Tradition of African Americans.
(b) What is the advantage, to you, of having the script available?
(c) What aspects of the performativity do you hear in the recorded version of this sermon that corresponds to other Vernacular Literary forms you studied? Give specific examples.
Question #3:
The introduction to the sermons in the text book draws a comparison between the Black Folk Sermons and Jazz. Pick a piece in the Jazz section of the text book and compare it to a piece in the Sermon section of the textbook to assess the validity of the editors analogy.
Question #4:
Using Duke Ellington's jazz piece: It Don't Mean a Thing and his 1958 hymn Come Sunday in the Spirituals, compare and contrast the two pieces in terms of the characteristics of The Vernacular Tradition of the African American.