约书亚-麦卡特-辛普森的歌曲与十九世纪中叶的反奴隶制活动

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Julia Chybowski
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19 世纪中叶,俄亥俄州黑人歌曲作家约书亚-辛普森(Joshua Simpson)出版了两本反奴隶制歌曲集:《反奴隶制歌曲集》(Original Anti-Slavery Songs)(1852 年)和《解放车》(Emancipation Car)(1854 年)。与其他大多数知名歌者汇编多位作者诗歌的做法不同,辛普森为借用的旋律创作了原创歌词,而且他在创作时格外用心,利用原创歌曲来强化他的活动信息。他运用符号修辞的手法,将新歌词与已有的歌曲联系起来,有时还借鉴了原文的含义,重新使用原文来增加反对奴隶制的道德和政治论点的分量。他还将传统民谣和现代伤感歌曲中有关家庭和家人舒适度的自然意象和歌词延伸到他的新歌词中,但更多的时候他的表意实践是具有讽刺意味的。他故意以令人不安的方式颠倒了原歌的感伤情绪,从而说服美国人帮助自我解放的人们,并致力于全面废除奴隶制。辛普森最激进的歌曲以不敬的方式回击了原版歌曲,尤其是包含有辱人格的漫画和支持奴隶制宣传的吟游小调,以及宣扬虚伪陈词滥调的爱国颂歌。辛普森不只是简单地创作新歌,他还改编了他那个时代最流行、最受欢迎的一些歌曲,利用这些歌曲的名声来强化他的激进主义信息。
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Joshua McCarter Simpson's Songs and Mid-Nineteenth Century Antislavery Activism

The Ohio-based Black songwriter, Joshua Simpson, published two books of antislavery songs in the mid-nineteenth century, Original Anti-Slavery Songs in 1852 and Emancipation Car in 1854. Unlike most other known songsters, which were compilations of poetry from several authors, Simpson authored original lyrics for borrowed melodies, and he did so with extraordinary care, engaging the original song to enhance his activist messages. Employing the rhetorical practice of signification, his linkage of new lyrics with preexisting songs sometimes builds upon meaning from the original text, reusing it to add weight to the moral and political arguments against slavery. He also extends nature imagery and lyrics about the comforts of home and family in traditional ballads and contemporary sentimental songs to his new lyrics, but more often his signifying practice is ironic. He inverts the original song's sentimentality in deliberately discomforting ways that could persuade Americans to assist self-emancipating people and work toward wholescale abolition of slavery. Simpson's most radical songs talk back irreverently to the originals, especially minstrel tunes containing degrading caricatures and proslavery propaganda as well as patriotic anthems proclaiming hypocritical platitudes. Simpson did not simply write new songs; he transformed some of the most popular and beloved songs of his era, harnessing their renown to sharpen his activist messages.

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