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Major Features of Langston Hughes' Jazz Poetry. An Analyis of his Poem "Railroad Avenue"

Author : Roswitha Mayer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668257375

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Major Features of Langston Hughes' Jazz Poetry. An Analyis of his Poem "Railroad Avenue" by Roswitha Mayer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (American Studies Department), course: American Modernism, language: English, abstract: How did Langston Hughes shape music into poetry, what were the items of his jazz poetry and what message did he want to mediate? Concerning the items and message of jazz poetry, secondary literature offers no help. Reading Hughes' jazz poems and combining it with the status of jazz music and Hughes' view of art, the following assumptions are plausible: Hughes’ jazz poetry tries with literary devices to imitate jazz music. This poetry reflects to reflect modern, urban black poplar culture. His poems transmit a new black self- confidence. The aim of this paper is to give reasons for those assumptions by analyzing a jazz poem closely. The poem that is to be analyzed is called „Railroad Avenue“ and was published first in 1926.

Jazz Age Poet

Author : Veda Boyd Jones
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822563464

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The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children’s books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781504073738

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The first published poetry collection from the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet behind such works as “Montage of a Dream Deferred” and “Life is Fine.” Originally published in 1926, The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes’s first collection of poetry. Broken into seven thematic sections, the sixty-eight poems capture the heart of a young budding artist and the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. The title poem, “The Weary Blues,” tells the story of a musician performing in a bar and uses a very lyrical style that flows throughout the collection. Other poems include, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Danse Africaine,” “Dream Variation,” “Mother to Son,” “Suicide’s Note,” and “Winter Moon.” The work touches on subjects like art, identity, race, class, urban life, music, and the Black experience in 1920s America.

Where the Jazz Band Plays - The Weary Blues - Poetry by Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781528798242

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Where the Jazz Band Plays - The Weary Blues - Poetry by Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

A leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was the first to use his poetry to reflect the real daily lives of average Black people. This collection celebrates Black pride and contains messages of hope and optimism from the 1920s. Langston Hughes is often referred to as the Poet Laureate of African-American experience. The writer featured themes of cultural heritage, racial discrimination, and optimism in his poetry. He used his work to reflect the struggles of Black people in America, but also to send messages of hope. Jazz and blues had a strong influence on his work and dreams are a recurring theme in his poetry. Not only does Hughes comment on the American dream and Black people’s inability to achieve it, but he also uses dreams as a symbol of hope for equity and freedom. This collection features several sections, including: - The Weary Blues - Dream Variations - The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Black Pierrot - Water-Front Streets - Shadows in the Sun - Our Land Where the Jazz Band Plays - The Weary Blues has been proudly published by specialist poetry imprint Ragged Hand and features an introductory excerpt by Carl Van Vechten and the introductory essay A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection is a perfect gift for fans of Hughes’ poetry and those with an interest in Black history.

First Book Of Jazz

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0880015527

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First Book Of Jazz by Langston Hughes Pdf

An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307949400

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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.

The Negro

Author : W.E.B. Bu Bois
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625582102

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The Negro by W.E.B. Bu Bois Pdf

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. "The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archaeological research in Africa has just begun, and many sources of information in Arabian, Portuguese, and other tongues are not fully at our command; and, too, it must frankly be confessed, racial prejudice against darker peoples is still too strong in so-called civilized centers for judicial appraisement of the peoples of Africa. Much intensive monographic work in history and science is needed to clear mooted points and quiet the controversialist who mistakes present personal desire for scientific proof. Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair interpretation as shall enable the general reader to know as men a sixth or more of the human race. Manifestly so short a story must be mainly conclusions and generalizations with but meager indication of authorities and underlying arguments." - W. E. B. Du Bois

Langston Hughes

Author : Onwuchekwa Jemie
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 0231037805

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Langston Hughes by Onwuchekwa Jemie Pdf

Langston Hughes' blues and jazz poetry is given special attention in a study which places the poetry in the Afro-American oral tradition and the tradition of struggle and protest.

Jazz Internationalism

Author : John Lowney
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252099939

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Jazz Internationalism by John Lowney Pdf

Jazz Internationalism offers a bold reconsideration of jazz's influence in Afro-modernist literature. Ranging from the New Negro Renaissance through the social movements of the 1960s, John Lowney articulates nothing less than a new history of Afro-modernist jazz writing. Jazz added immeasurably to the vocabulary for discussing radical internationalism and black modernism in leftist African American literature. Lowney examines how Claude McKay, Ann Petry, Langston Hughes, and many other writers employed jazz as both a critical social discourse and mode of artistic expression to explore the possibilities ”and challenges ”of black internationalism. The result is an expansive understanding of jazz writing sure to spur new debates.

The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486850566

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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Pdf

Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679426318

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by James Langston Hughes Pdf

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

The Big Sea

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547110521

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The Big Sea by Langston Hughes Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Soundworks

Author : Anthony Reed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012795

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Soundworks by Anthony Reed Pdf

In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially. Soundwork is Reed’s term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes’s collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka’s work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez’s albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes.

Jazz Age Poet

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746501298

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Jazz Age Poet by Anonim Pdf

The author of such poems as I, To; Sing America; and The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes combined his experiences and emotions with the rhythms and themes he found in jazz music to create an exciting new style of poetry. Throughout his lifetime, Hughes won many awards and honors for his various books of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, children's books, autobiographies, and magazine articles. Despite always struggling to succeed financially, Hughes never gave up trying to be a better writer, and a better man.

Hughes: Poems

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015046481225

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Hughes: Poems by Langston Hughes Pdf

A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.