Songs As Protest during the Civil Rights Movement

Historian Bernice Johnson Reagon says the following of the civil rights-era songs:

“Most of the singing of the civil rights movement was congregational; it was sung unrehearsed in the tradition of the Afro-American folk church . . . The core song repertoire was formed from the reservoir of Afro-American traditional song performed in the older style of singing. This music base was expanded to include most of the popular Afro-American music forms and singing techniques of the period. From this reservoir, activist song leaders made a new music for a changed time. Lyrics were transformed, traditional melodies were adapted and procedures associated with old forms were blended with new forms to create freedom songs capable of expressing the force and intent of the movement.”

Referring to at least two songs as examples, You must answer these questions in your answerwhat are the cultural legacies binding these songs to their historical origins as slave songs? Does the transformation allow these songs to function in new ways, or do they hold too closely to the past in such a way as to interfere with the message?
Your analysis papers must utilize a minimum of two scholarly and credible sources, in addition to the primary texts. Papers should be centered on a clear, argument-based thesis.
I have provided a few resources, Carawan is the primary required text, I have selected 2 songs from the book and provided screenshots.
Works Cited
https://www.gpb.org/news/2019/09/17/slavery-civil-rights-the-legacy-of-negro-spirituals-in-georgia
Carawan, Candie, and Guy Carawan. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs. Illustrated, Montgomery, AL, NewSouth Books, 2007.
Hsiung, David C. Freedom Songs and the Modern Civil Rights Movement. OAH Magazine of History, vol. 19, no. 4, 2005, pp. 2326. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25161959. Accessed 12 June 2021.

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