The Harlem Renaissance occurred between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s where many blacks left the South to free themselves from the oppression. It was a period of cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem that showcased black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. It involved racial pride where blacks demanded g civil and political rights. One of the most well- known artists during this time was Langston Hughes. A lot of his work was featured in The Crisis Magazine, a journal of the NAACP where W.E.B, Dubois was the editor.
Langston Hughes wasn’t always a well renounced poet, his life before was very interesting as well. Born James Mercer Langston Hughes, Hughes was born …show more content…
This journal, among others, vigorously stimulated the growing Harlem Renaissance, as the sudden outpouring of work by younger black artists in the 1920s in New York City is often called. In Hughes’s prize poem, “The Weary Blues,” the speaker tells of encountering a blues singer and piano player one night in a Harlem club. The poem, which quotes at length from the singer’s blues song in a tribute to its mysterious power and complex art, begins. The prize led directly to the publication of Hughes’s first book of poems, The Weary Blues, early in 1926. This poem also marked a major shift in the poet’s work.
Always admiring of the black musical tradition, which he believed to be the most reliable guide to the reality of his people’s experience, Hughes began an intense exploration of the link between poetry and the blues. Although he had already Page 28 experimented with jazz poetry (as Carl Sandburg had done), he came to regard the blues as by far the most authentic and profound of all the popular musical forms in the African American community. Hughes worked to develop this
Langston Hughes wasn’t always a well renounced poet, his life before was very interesting as well. Born James Mercer Langston Hughes, Hughes was born …show more content…
This journal, among others, vigorously stimulated the growing Harlem Renaissance, as the sudden outpouring of work by younger black artists in the 1920s in New York City is often called. In Hughes’s prize poem, “The Weary Blues,” the speaker tells of encountering a blues singer and piano player one night in a Harlem club. The poem, which quotes at length from the singer’s blues song in a tribute to its mysterious power and complex art, begins. The prize led directly to the publication of Hughes’s first book of poems, The Weary Blues, early in 1926. This poem also marked a major shift in the poet’s work.
Always admiring of the black musical tradition, which he believed to be the most reliable guide to the reality of his people’s experience, Hughes began an intense exploration of the link between poetry and the blues. Although he had already Page 28 experimented with jazz poetry (as Carl Sandburg had done), he came to regard the blues as by far the most authentic and profound of all the popular musical forms in the African American community. Hughes worked to develop this