Langston Hughes and the Blues
Edition number: First Edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date of Publication: 7 May 2024
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780252088049 |
ISBN10: | 0252088042 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 328 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 464 g |
Language: | English |
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The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes’s poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes’s experimental forms reflect the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the music. Tracy also offers a discography of recordings by the artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others--who most influenced the poet.
?A close and unsentimental look at this rich and enduring form and a deep and continuing questioning of its possibilities for more formal expression.?--John McCluskey Jr., American Literature
?A close and unsentimental look at this rich and enduring form and a deep and continuing questioning of its possibilities for more formal expression.?--John McCluskey Jr., American Literature