The Language & Life Project | Performance Traditions @TheLanguageLifeProject | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
African American artistic forms like the Blues, Spirituals, Spoken Word, Preaching, Comedy and Hip Hop reveal a story about the creative use of African American Language and its function as a tool for survival, liberation and belonging within the Black Community.

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