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I've heard this song many times before, but the connection between the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt and Africans in America just clicked for me. It's no wonder that this song was and still is so important to the African American community
@@esther3479 You're delusional. Black people are not, nor have they ever been Jews. Jews are Jews, and black people are black people. Your historical revisionism is absurd and no one takes it seriously.
@@jonahs92 the beta Israel is literally a group of black jews hailing from Africa, there has been black people in Africa that are jews for thousands of years at this point
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A Story about a Musician and Singer : A grandson of slaves, a boy was born in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans known as the 'Back of Town'. His father abandoned the family when the child was an infant. His mother became a prostitute and the boy and his sister had to live with their grandmother. Early in life he proved to be gifted for music and, with three other kids, he sang in the streets of New Orleans. His first gains were the coins that were thrown to them. A Jewish family, Karnofsky, who had immigrated from Lithuania to the USA had pity for the 7-year-old boy and brought him into their home. They initially gave him 'work' in the house, to feed this hungry child. There he remained and slept in this Jewish family's home where, for the first time in his life he was treated with kindness and tenderness. When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnovsky sang him a Russian Lullaby that he would sing with her. Later, he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs. Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family. The Karnofskys gave him money to buy his first musical instrument, as was the custom in the Jewish families. They sincerely admired his musical talent. Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions, such as 'St. James Infirmary' and 'Go Down Moses'. The little black boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family who had adopted him in 1907. In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore a star of David and said that in this family he had learned "how to live a real life and determination." You might recognize his name. This little boy was called Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong. Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish! And I bet you didn't know any of this.... And 'Satchmo' is Yiddish for 'Big Cheeks."
What an amazing story, thank you for telling it. I had heard that Louis Armstrong had been homeless for a time as a child, but I never heard about the Jewish family who adopted him. Beautiful story of human compassion and love.❤
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan Song is literally about Moses and Old testament story of Exodus of Jews from Egypt. It was approximatelly 1300 years before Jesus.
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan You are quite dense or really latent Christian as thanks to your last reply I am sure you know nothing about Bible except the name of the book and that it also contains person of Jesus Christ.
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan Even so, no part of the story he mentions was written by those who would call themselves Christian's, they didn't even exist. Especially since this is a foundational story about the formation of the Jewish people, who preceded Chrisrians by a while
No one knows until the family gave him the money to buy an instrument as their custom and the little boy found his true calling. What a great true story of a humble kid and became a master of music, Louis Armstrong. Thank you for sharing his legacy. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah! Amen😇🤍🙏
This kind of songs is called spirituals , we've learned about this on a music school in Greece. Spirituals are songs used by black slaves in America back in the 19th century and every lyric of them has a secret meaning. Through these songs slaves were capable of making escape plans as every word symbolises what information had to follow so as to reach North America - where black people were free - by swimming across the Mississippi River and be finally lead to freedom. Slaves weren't able to clearly make their plans so they used spirituals not only for entertainment but mostly for describing their plans to the other slaves. Especially in that song Moses symolises the white men that would lead them to the river and offer them intructions till the end of their journey , Pharaoh symbolises the guards , people the slaves and Egypt land South America , the regions tht slaves were captured . There are loads of songs like this Sush as ''Wade in the water'' , ''Swing low sweer chariot '' and others , and it is true that slaves back then ignoring their importance to our new society , offered us a great masterpiece not only for history but also for music !!!!!! Respect
Thus said the Lord, bold Moses sais, Let my people go, If Not !'LL Smite Your First Born Daed. Let My People Go; And so since Columbine, white youth have been met with devine judgement. The defiant ones refusal to see this as such and seek redemption. This means such acts will contiue! until they humble themsevles and repent for their centruries of racism!
Mon père qui était saxophoniste, était grand fan de cette musique. Pour son enterrement on l'a passée dans l'église, on aurait tout simplement pas pu lui faire un plus bel hommage, c'était magnifique.
No, because he knew he was a Hebrew….!!!….. go down Moses was a censored song amongst the slaves on plantations according to slave autobiographies….Caucasian plantation owners, and slave owners did not like them, singing this song ….. the conditions of the Negro directly links to the curses and conditions of the Hebrews in Egypt……… not surprising white people didn’t like them singing it
The current national anthem is pretty black since we were at that battle on that perilous night. And we did do a good bit of fighting I might add to see that flag remain. 😉
Ok, for yall saying religious things, remember that this song isn't actually about religion. Its about the escape of slaves. Slaves would use it to communicate by singing this, letting those hearing the song that it was time to escape the Slave house/plantations. In the song: Moses= Harriet tubman (she was referred to using the code name moses) Pharoah= the white man. Egypt= the plantation
Je soutiens tous ceux qui ont la Covid-19, bonne chance à eux ! Ma prof de musique nous apprend ça, liker si vous aussi elle vous apprend cette chanson !
Yes, u r right, Fatima. A typical example of nazi exploitation by the imperialist French government has been goin' on in the former African colonies for several centuries. Francophone Africa is still economically ripped off by France, with the complicity of African heads of state, who are controlled and threatened by the french government.The international community is either unaware of this unacceptable situation or just does not care. Francophone Africa, just like back in the 15 thru the 19th centuries, is not free. Let us all tell the french to set francophone Africa free. Just like france was liberated by the Allied Forces from Nazi Germany in 1945.
Louis Armstrong was adopted, and brought up by a Jewish family. The mother sang him Jewish lullabies. This is about the enslavement of the Jews by the Egyptians.
My middle school's jazz band played this by far my favorate peice the whole year. (THIS SONG SLAPS ITS FIRE. WE MAKIN IT OUT OF EJYPT WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥🔥)
il faut être réaliste musicalement c'est tellement riche, fin et puissant qu'il n'y as pas énormément d'artistes qui n'aurais qu'un 100 e de la finesse et du génie d'artistes comme les Beetles, Rolling stone ( dire que c'était de la musique pop.... regardez le niveau de la musique pop maintenant et osez me dire que c'est du même niveau, je vous attends mes chérubins ) Je ne veux pas être réac mais cette époque à un sale goût, un relent qui me dit qu'"Idiocracy" à certainement raison . Attention je ne dit pas qu'il ne faut pas écouter toute les merdes calibré pour plaire à une base qui n'as plus d'éducation musicale et qui préfère regarder secret story que de lire.... oui je suis légèrement misanthrope mais j'attends que l'ont me prouvent le contraire :)
J'ai rien bien fort du mec qui s'autoproclame musicalement cultivé et qui écrit les "Beetles". Typiquement le genre de personne qui est trop fier d'avoir un peu de culture musicale (c'est une chance que tout le monde n'a pas) et qui aime bien le montrer, non sans faire un nombre significatif de fautes. Ça ne te grandit pas, ça ne te rend pas plus intelligent(e) :).
salut à toi jeune troll pubère :) ! Premièrement tu n'en sais rien, tu n'y connais rien en musique mais vraiment rien alors ferme là à tous jamais s'il te plait et retourne te branler sur du lady gaga, tu me fera plaisir. Je me base sur des connaissances sérieuses de la musique pas d'un points de vue subjectif mais j'ai l'impression que tu es trop débile pour le concevoir, j'affirme haut et fort que d'un point de vue musical, la majeure partie des production mainstream sont extrêmement pauvres et calibré pour le plus grand nombre grâce à des études toujours plus poussé, si tu me trouve prétentieux regarde ce que l'ont écoute comme "pop" musique dans les années 60/70 et tu trouveras énormément de titres riches, original, novateurs mais je pense qu'un p'tit con comme toi préfére écouter son wati bon son de débilos et n'as pas la moindres culture musicale.... Je ne te salut pas petit débile
superlapinou131 pourquoi tu insulte les artiste d'aujourd'hui. Ta beau préférer les vieilles musiques n'insulte pas le fan du pop d'aujourd'hui, alors calme toi.
