Letter To The Free

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Common - 2016
Speaks out against injustice. Lyrics criticise moneymaking prisons. Talks about Amendment 13. Focus on systems of racial control

Question 2

Performative mode

Answer 2

Speaking song/direct address
Expressions passionate

Question 3

Media language

Answer 3

– Low-key lighting – chiaroscuro effect
Dash camera angles to show moods
– black and white – racism = past and present issues
– begins in darkness – entrapment of African-Americans
– cinematography – face hidden in men’s shorts
– represents black men and women

4 longshots are beginning to establish location
– mise en scène to emphasise bias of CJS
– empty prison – signifies freedom he wants
– alone and isolated – jumps from room to room

Question 4

Audience

Answer 4

Appeals to those against inequality – black people who can relate to diaspora
Young&old audience
Calls out right using ideas

Question 5

Quotes

Answer 5

“Seven leaves, Seventrees “
Intertextuality – bill halliday strange fruits - southern slave

“The new Jimmy Crow “
Talking about the laws which kept black people from voting

“caged birds “
Paul Lawrence poem

“amendment 13 “
Criticising the government