Langston Hughes and the Blues

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Langston Hughes and the Blues is written by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252056949 (ISBN 10) and 9780252056949 (ISBN 13).

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.