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Article: Hughes' 'Beale Street Love.'.(Langston Hughes' poem)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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The artistic mission of Langston Hughes in his book of poems Fine Clothes to the Jew is clear and now legendary - to sing blues in literature and poetically play syncopated jazz rhythms, while creating new poetic forms born out of the suffering and joy of his people, or as Hughes might say, born out of the blues and jazz he saw in the lives of poor African Americans during the 1920s. If blues can be seen as a melodic metaphor for the misery in the lives of ordinary black people, jazz is the sound of their laughter. The same sweet melancholy that colors the blues can characterize the African American struggle to survive as a "blues experience." One of the most riveting ...
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