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