| 11. | Many Negro spirituals have been interpreted as thinly veiled expressions of protest against slavery and oppression.
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| 12. | They usually have a style influenced by Flamenco and Israeli music, and occasionally by Negro spirituals.
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| 13. | "He invited polyglot Americans to join hands and sing the old Negro spirituals, " he said.
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| 14. | The boys also performed Gregorian chants and other medieval music, and Tucker's arrangements of Negro spirituals.
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| 15. | Negro spirituals may also have served as socio-political protests veiled as assimilation to the white American culture.
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| 16. | And Mark Twain once said he would walk seven miles to hear them sing their Negro spirituals.
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| 17. | Discouraged, she creates dances with her friends to Negro spirituals and gets ousted from the company altogether.
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| 18. | Sometime before 1862 a Negro slave, Wallace Willis, composed the Negro spiritual " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ".
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| 19. | "How Long Brethren ? " and " Negro Spirituals " have lost neither their dynamism nor their validity.
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| 20. | The anthology begins with Negro spirituals, a testimony to the centrality of the vernacular tradition in African-American literature.
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