登入選單

返回Google圖書搜尋

Langston Hughes & the Blues

Steven Carl Tracy

出版	University of Illinois Press, 2001
主題	Literary Criticism / American / African American & BlackMusic / GeneralMusic / Genres & Styles / BluesPoetry / General
ISBN	02520698549780252069857
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-6IckTt8JhEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook	SAMPLE

註釋

"Drawing on a deep understanding of the shades and structures of the blues, Steven C. Tracy elucidates the vital relationship between this musical form and the art of Langston Hughes, preeminent poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Tracy provides a cultural context for the poet's work and shows how Hughes mined African-American oral and literary traditions to create his blues-inspired poetry. Through a detailed comparison of Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy demonstrates how the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the blues are reflected in Hughes's experimental forms. The volume also includes a discography of recordings by the blues artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others-who most influenced Hughes, updated in a new introduction by the author."