In performances in Atlanta; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Los Angeles; Rio de Janeiro; Chicago; and Denver in 2012, Ms. Lauryn Hill carved out space to voice black rage. In videos uploaded to YouTube, Hill sings, raps, talks, and riffs varied renditions of the song “Black Rage (Sketch),” a remix of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's “My Favorite Things.” During her November performance at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, drumbeats punctuated Hill's rapping and singing. Her performance took the audience on a journey meant to leave no one behind; it moved from the highly choreographed rendition of the song with musical accompaniment and Hill acting as lead vocalist and band conductor to her slowly speaking the lyrics of the song and occasionally offering analysis of her words over the shouts and applause of audience members. She explains the line “when I'm feeling sad,” saying “that's a depressive mood.” As the title of her song suggests, in each reiteration Hill issues a different draft of the song, sketching her sound, mood, tempo, and emphasis with each new audience. Although renditions of the song shift, the lyrics consistently recount the physical, psychic, economic, and environmental vulnerability of black people in the United States. The lyrics transform the original song's references to beloved objects—“blue satin sashes” and “snowflakes”—into ironic things such as “Black human packages tied up in strings,” which Hill described in her Philadelphia performance as a reference to bureaucracy but which also resonates with familiar images of lynching. Shifting from the original song's depiction of the curative capacity of things to offset feeling bad, Hill explains that her set of things prevents fear: “I simply remember all these kinds of things and then I don't fear so bad!”

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黑人之怒：关于培养黑人民族归属感

在亚特兰大演出；费城; 华盛顿特区; 洛杉矶; 里约热内卢; 芝加哥; 和 2012 年的丹佛，Lauryn Hill 女士开辟了空间来表达黑人的愤怒。在上传到 YouTube 的视频中，Hill 演唱、说唱、演讲和即兴演奏，对歌曲“Black Rage (Sketch)”的各种演绎，Richard Rodgers 和 Oscar Hammerstein II 的“My Favorite Things”的混音。在她 11 月在费城电力厂的演出中，鼓声打断了希尔的说唱和歌唱。她的表演带领观众踏上了一段不遗余力的旅程。它从精心编排的歌曲伴奏和希尔担任主唱和乐队指挥，转变为她慢慢地说出歌曲的歌词，偶尔在观众的呼喊和掌声中分析她的话。她解释了“当我感到悲伤时”这句话，说“那是一种抑郁的情绪”。正如她的歌名所暗示的，在每次重复中，希尔都会发布不同的歌曲草稿，勾勒出她的声音、情绪、节奏和对每一位新听众的强调。尽管歌曲的演绎发生了变化，但歌词始终如一地讲述美国黑人在身体、心理、经济和环境方面的脆弱性。歌词将原曲对心爱物品的引用——“蓝色缎带”和“雪花”——变成了讽刺的东西，比如“用绳子捆着的黑人包裹”，希尔在她的费城表演中将其描述为对官僚主义的提及，但也与熟悉的私刑形象产生共鸣。从原始歌曲转移'