1-> According to Du Bois, songs of pain “means pain means the struggle and resistance of slavery. It is a slave song that expresses the struggle, hope and fear of not being able to be free. Each of the songs tells a story. of slaves united states of several years ago. for them this song had an unbelievable meaning because they sang it while they were enslaved they sang it to the world with the hope of being freed. these songs were created with the purpose for the African slaves to that they expressed their deep sadness and confusion. These songs represent the pain and suffering they endured for generations. Although these songs symbolized a dark and depressing step, they also had the potential to be used for worship These songs have been passed down through the generations in generation to remind us of all the things they had to go through.

2-> Of all the songs of sadness, the most significant would be “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen” this song touched my soul because despite not saying much in the song, you can feel the pain and the things for which they passed. The letters represent all the hard things that he had to endure and see during that time. All the suffering and pain that the African people went through and the melody adds to that effect. there are songs that rarely convey emotions to you, these is one of them.

Nowadays, the way of reading books or listening to music, even the way of watching movies has changed over time. Nowadays we can access them through an app or wed sites, we can also download it through the internet. This method has been much easier and more adaptable for anyone who wants to listen or see and read their favorite book or movie or music since we can see or listen to it anywhere because we carry it in the hand that is our phone. However, we forget the joyous and unique experience that we get when we enter a record store or even a bookstore. that cannot be relaunched no matter how much technology we have at our disposal. My opinion about this of buying books or watching a movie even loses its grace and emotion before I was little I would go to the movies emotionally to watch the movies or today I can see it as many times as I want but it is not the same emotion as in a book to be able to enter one Librarian and that I send you to do silence just because you are reading aloud is an emotion that nowadays technology cannot provide. but many people adore by technology because it is more adaptable in daily life and nowadays the human being does what is necessary not to leave the home.

According to Du Bois, what is the significance of what he calls the “sorrow songs” to African-American history and culture?

The ” Sorrow Songs’ as Du Bois describes them, are a microcosm of the achievements of African  descendants  in America. These songs which like their compsores, have been refined by their fires of American slavery injustice and oppression.

Which of the songs featured in this chapter is the most significant, in your opinion, and why?

According to me the song ” You may bury me in the east” is the most significant song. Their pain was conveyed by  each term. They conveyed in these song that their lives and death were both unknown  and contingent on their liberty.

African American history and culture is unique compared to other cultures. One of the more tragic elements of African American culture is what W.E.B. Du Bois refers to as “sorrow songs”. These sorrow songs are a very important piece to African American history and culture. In W.E.B. Du Bois’ text, The Souls of Black Folk, he introduces sorrow songs as calling them “weird old songs in which the soul of the black slave spoke to men. They came out of the South unknown to me… and yet at once I knew them as of me and of mine” In saying this, I interpret Du Bois to mean that these sorrow songs are as olden and interwoven into African American culture as a Mother Goose nursery rhyme might be as nostalgic to one of us today. Both whispered from mother to child, passed down from generation to generation. Another point Du Bois makes of the importance of sorrow songs to African American history is by saying that “it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage of a nation and the greatest gift of the Negro people.” meaning that these songs are the embodiment of past African American slaves’ spirituality and one of the best pieces of their culture that they could’ve shared with the world. Which brings me to another way in which the sorrow songs were a key part of African American culture and history, which is the creation of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers were, as Du Bois states, a group of African American singers whom toured and shared their sorrow songs with the world. This brought global recognition and helped fund Fisk University, a historically black university.
In my opinion one of the most significant sorrow songs Du Bois mentions in The Souls of Black Folk is Nobody Knows the Trouble I See. Du Bois recounts the story as when a general was bringing the news of broken promise of land to the freed slaves, an elderly woman led the group of African Americans in this song and the scene was so touching and powerful that it caused the general to weep. I feel that the news the general brought had hurt the woman so deeply that she began to sing that sorrowful song and the reason it was so moving and more than just a musical performance is because there was actual emotion behind the song.

1) Du Boi describes the sorrow songs as the sole American music, being the most beautiful form of human expression to come from the new world. These songs are significant to African-American history as they are the voices of the past, they reveal the strife and trouble of the slaves. This history is passed down generationally, and although their words meaning may not be understood to its recipients, the meaning of the music is. Du Boi describes the steps in which these songs of African descent integrated itself into American culture. He described them in 4 steps, first one is African in root, second being of African-American, third is the combination of this music with the music heard in the foster lands, and the fourth is white music which has been inspired from said African-American music. This describes the integration of African music in our predominantly white America, and in turn reveals the progression of our culture today.

2) In my own opinion I feel that “You may bury me in the east” is the most significant sorrow song. It is the only song I’ve heard on the list that explicitly mentions the longing to die, despite the terror that comes with that thought. And that shakes me to my core to know the enslaved fantasized the idea of a heaven after death, for they can not live a pleasant live in enslavement. To me this song talks about a share hope for salvation after death, and that to me defines the sorrow songs.

1.   According to DuBois, the meaning behind “ Sorrow Song” it talks about African American deep connection they have with the situations with discrimination, Slavery, and other meaningful things by singing deep in there soul, and talking about the culture, and freedom.  In Du Bois’s writing, African-Americans use music to express their aspirations. This music is not joyful mostly are sad and has a strong meaning in it. In each song. our generation, unfortunately, don’t know what they went there but from what we hear for each soundtrack music I can feel the pain that they are going through.  
2.    I think “nobody knows” by Louis Armstrong is very significant. This song explains experience what I think most African Americans go through in daily life discrimination and racism. The violin playing in a sad way and Louis Armstrong’s way of singing make this song very deep. I can say that it makes me reflect on how African American is treated unfaired.