Where The Jazz Band Plays The Weary Blues Poetry By Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528798244
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Jazz Band Plays - The Weary Blues - Poetry by Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486849015
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, "His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race. Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal," and, he concludes, they are the expression of "an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature." That illusive nature darts among these early lines and begins to reveal itself, with precocious confidence and clarity"--From publisher's description (a later edition).

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Weary Blues" is Langston Hughes' first collection of poems. His poetry portrays the lives of the working-class blacks in America, lives he portrays as full of struggle, joy, laughter, and music. Permeating his work is pride in the African-American identity and its diverse culture. He confronted racial stereotypes, protested social conditions, and expanded African America's image of itself; a "people's poet" who sought to reeducate both audience and artist by lifting the theory of the black aesthetic into reality.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hughes: Poems written by Langston Hughes and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780880014243
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Book Of Jazz written by Langston Hughes and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1995-10-21 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to jazz music by one of our finest writers. Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and longtime jazz enthusiast, wrote The First Book of Jazz as a homage to the music that inspired him. The roll of African drums, the dancing quadrilles of old New Orleans, the work songs of the river ports, the field shanties of the cotton plantations, the spirituals, the blues, the off-beats of ragtime -- in a history as exciting as jazz rhythms, Hughes describes how each of these played a part in the extraordinary history of jazz.

Author : Hart Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Buildings written by Hart Crane and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven C. Tracy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056949
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes and the Blues written by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Hayden
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472220209
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Prose written by Robert Hayden and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced poet Robert Hayden. Contents include "The History of Punchinello: A Baroque Play in One Act," Hayden's introductory remarks to volumes like Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poet and The New Negro, and interviews with Hayden."

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vintage Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."