Question

Describe the character of worship services among blacks in autonomous settings in the rural south during slavery. What aspects of the service were valued?How did these cultural values translate into song performance?

Answer 1

Worship services in marginalized black communities served as a space of affirmation of values of blacks as a people.

Explanation:

The cultural setting of the south during the slavery era meant that the black population had very limited space to propagate their own culture with the backbreaking work of the farms and the owners doing everything to strip them away of their identity.

In this time the Sunday mass and the service served to be the cultural meeting place of the black people where they propagated the values of liberty and fraternity and passing down of their culture.

These musical performances are where much of the roots of the black cultural music can be found inspired by the African beat music to the fandangos and the rustic guitars of America.