{"id":519,"date":"2020-04-19T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:10:51","slug":"4-20-discussion-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/2020\/04\/19\/4-20-discussion-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/20 Discussion Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>\u00a0By placing American cities alongside Irish towns in &#8220;Night Train,&#8221; how does Deco&#8217;s lyrical improvisation notion towards a broader Transatlantic community? Does the audience&#8217;s cheers at the Irish entrance into the sphere of African-American identity validate the authenticity of participation in the transatlantic community?<\/li>\n<li>What does Joey the Lips&#8217;s resentment towards jazz say about the Commitments&#8217; mission to replicate and relate to authentic African-American experience and music?\u00a0 When Joey criticizes Dean for trying to branch out into music which he deems to be too &#8220;thoughtful,&#8221; does he imply that soul is the only way to properly express the African-American experience?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 What does the band&#8217;s quick dissolution have to say about their attempts to don the cultural persona of an African-American soul band?\u00a0 If &#8220;soul is community,&#8221; as Joey the Lips claims, does the Commitments&#8217; constant infighting and implosion negate the claims that their style is authentic Dublin soul?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By placing American cities alongside Irish towns in &#8220;Night Train,&#8221; how does Deco&#8217;s lyrical improvisation notion towards a broader Transatlantic community? Does the audience&#8217;s cheers at the Irish entrance into the sphere of African-American identity validate the authenticity of participation in the transatlantic community? What does Joey the Lips&#8217;s resentment towards jazz say about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/2020\/04\/19\/4-20-discussion-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4\/20 Discussion Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429185,441537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-questions","category-doyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/blackandgreenatlantic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}