American Music: Chuck Berry - Promised Land

Chuck Berry - Promised Land Institution: Course: Date: Chuck Berry - Promised Land The song mentions several places that boy visits and the form part of the story that the narrator is trying to tell the audience. The places include Raleigh, Norfolk, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston and Albuquerque. This is a song that gives a rather sorrowful emotion and at the same time elicits happy feelings. It is a true nature of art, as it elaborates in the story the life of the people during the Jim Crow era. The artiste is able to bring life to the sorrowful nature of the restrictions that existed at the time and at the sometime bring a sign of relief with reference to the freedom associated with travel. This was a song that was written to bring out the element of freedom that finally came with the ability to travel. Before the end of the slavery and later the age of discrimination during the Jim Crow era, t...