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Based on the reading and videos below, respond to the following below:
List and discuss at least two of the major utilities of oral practices for Africans according to the class viewings and readings thus far.
How have music and song practices been utilized in the Diaspora as a tool of oppression and resistance according to the chapter by DuBois?
What was Dubois' perspective on the role of music and songs for African Americans?
How do the themes from this chapter relate to the Gullah Culture?
Include and properly cite at least 1 scholarly article in your response.
READING LINK (GULLAH) :https://glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-slavery-and-sierra-leone-american-connection
VIDEO LINKS (GULLAH):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxPU5517u8chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1lyHec8GkE

VIDEO LINK (DUBOIS) :https://www.biography.com/video/web-du-bois-mini-biography XXXXXXXXXX
READING LINK (DUBOIS) :WEB Du Bois. (1903). “Of the Sorrow Songs” Chapter XIV.The Souls of Black Folk.Project Gutenberg EBook #408, XXXXXXXXXX:https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/203/the-souls-of-black-folk/4458/chapter-14-of-the-sorrow-songs/

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List and discuss at least two of the major utilities of oral practices for Africans according to the class viewings and readings thus far.
Two major utilities of oral practices for Africans can be listed as transmission of history in its actual form and transmission of African arts and values through the ages. Oral practices have enabled the preservation of the history of Negro people. It has helped preserve their feelings and traditions over time.  In addition, it represents the single most accurate representation of the Negro culture and the evolution of their fear, oppression, struggle and hope through the ages. 
Oral practices have also served as a means of transmitting the African arts to the world. The folk songs, music and rhythm represent the cultural beliefs and artistic excellence of the Negro people. It serves not only as an aesthetic tradition that needs to be valued but also serves as a form of liberation and discovery of higher purposes of life (Moore, 2018). 
How have music and song practices been utilized in the Diaspora as a tool of oppression and resistance according to the chapter by DuBois?
According to the chapter by DuBois,

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