Discussion Forum Week 4

Student Name Instructor’s Name Course Section Date Title W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk” explores a subject of crucial importance to Black culture emanating from the historical events of slavery through “The Sorrow Songs.” Through these songs, Du Bois argues that they are the perfectly raw and authentic expressions of the Black experience. By tracing how black popular music like blues, soul and hip-hop still serve this purpose, this paper will clarify the eternal implication of this form of expression in the modern day. The blues, whose topics include hardships, serenity, and perseverance, had a deep connection to Du Bois’s sorrow songs vision. The artists can articulate hardships in the life of an average person with raw emotion. Du Bois’s statement which says that the sorrow songs are “…the articulate message of the slave to the world” (Du Bois 133) has a similar resemblance to that of blues musicians who bring ...