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38598788 | Play | I Have Known Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598781 | Play | The Weary Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598782 | Play | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598786 | Play | I Too | 00:00 Tools | |
38598783 | Play | Ballad Of The Gypsy | 00:00 Tools | |
38598784 | Play | Sylvester's Dying Bed | 00:00 Tools | |
38598785 | Play | Mother to Son | 00:00 Tools | |
38598790 | Play | Dreams | 00:00 Tools | |
38598787 | Play | Still Here | 00:00 Tools | |
38598789 | Play | Mulatto | 00:00 Tools | |
38598801 | Play | In My Poetry (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598793 | Play | The Story of the Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
88279423 | Play | Portraits of Langston: V. Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret | 00:00 Tools | |
38598791 | Play | Blues Montage | 00:00 Tools | |
38598792 | Play | Homesick Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598821 | Play | Lincoln Monument; Washington; Aunt Sue's Stories | 00:00 Tools | |
38598844 | Play | We Are the American Heartbreak (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598803 | Play | Feet Live Their Own Life | 00:00 Tools | |
38598795 | Play | Life Is Fine | 00:00 Tools | |
38598837 | Play | Mama and Daughter | 00:00 Tools | |
38598797 | Play | Ma Lord | 00:00 Tools | |
38598796 | Play | Night and Morn | 00:00 Tools | |
38598794 | Play | I, Too | 00:00 Tools | |
38598798 | Play | Blues At Dawn | 00:00 Tools | |
38598806 | Play | Rhythms of the World | 00:00 Tools | |
38598799 | Play | Morning After | 00:00 Tools | |
38598835 | Play | The Weary Blues; Wide River; Homesick Blues; Night and Morn | 00:00 Tools | |
38598824 | Play | Trumpet Player | 00:00 Tools | |
38598805 | Play | As I Go | 00:00 Tools | |
38598811 | Play | As I Grew Older; I, Too | 00:00 Tools | |
38598800 | Play | Negro Speaks of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598808 | Play | The Struggle | 00:00 Tools | |
38598804 | Play | Six-Bits Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598807 | Play | Hey (Night) Too Blue Ballad of the Fortune Teller | 00:00 Tools | |
38598809 | Play | Note On the Commercial Theatre | 00:00 Tools | |
38598815 | Play | Merry-Go-Round | 00:00 Tools | |
38598802 | Play | "Dreams" And "Youth" | 00:00 Tools | |
38598822 | Play | Simple Prayers a Prayer | 00:00 Tools | |
38598816 | Play | One Way Ticket | 00:00 Tools | |
38598819 | Play | Puzzled | 00:00 Tools | |
38598812 | Play | I'm Gonna Testify | 00:00 Tools | |
38598810 | Play | Consider Me | 00:00 Tools | |
38598843 | Play | I Went to Columbia (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598827 | Play | Dressed Up; When Sue Wears Red; April Rain Song | 00:00 Tools | |
38598814 | Play | Could Be / Bad Luck Card / Bad Man | 00:00 Tools | |
38598840 | Play | Ku-Klux-Klan | 00:00 Tools | |
38598813 | Play | Weary Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598851 | Play | African Dance; Dream Variation; The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598846 | Play | Cultural Exchange | 00:00 Tools | |
38598823 | Play | Baby; Mother to Son; Dreams; Youth | 00:00 Tools | |
38598828 | Play | Introduction to the Negro Speaks of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598820 | Play | Testament | 00:00 Tools | |
38598818 | Play | Hey Hey (Morn) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598849 | Play | Kid Sleepy | 00:00 Tools | |
38598852 | Play | Out of Work | 00:00 Tools | |
38598842 | Play | Dinner Guest Me | 00:00 Tools | |
38598862 | Play | Simple - Intro | 00:00 Tools | |
38598857 | Play | The Very First Poem That I Sold (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598817 | Play | Dream Variations | 00:00 Tools | |
38598825 | Play | Good Morning / Harlem | 00:00 Tools | |
38598826 | Play | Motto / Dead in There | 00:00 Tools | |
38598847 | Play | Parisian Beggar Woman; Mexican Market Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
38598858 | Play | The South | 00:00 Tools | |
38598859 | Play | Southern Mammy Songs | 00:00 Tools | |
38598841 | Play | The Dream Keeper: Dreams; Water-Front Street; Long Trip | 00:00 Tools | |
38598836 | Play | Tell Me | 00:00 Tools | |
38598832 | Play | Warning: Augmented | 00:00 Tools | |
38598829 | Play | Negro | 00:00 Tools | |
38598860 | Play | Migrant | 00:00 Tools | |
38598834 | Play | Same In Blues / Comment on Curb | 00:00 Tools | |
38598848 | Play | Seascape; Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
38598863 | Play | Eventually I Found Work (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598833 | Play | Boogie: 1 a.m. | 00:00 Tools | |
38598838 | Play | Bed Time | 00:00 Tools | |
38598871 | Play | The Explanation of Our Times | 00:00 Tools | |
38598839 | Play | Daybreak | 00:00 Tools | |
38598854 | Play | Feet O'Jesus; Prayer; Prayer Meeting; Ma Lord | 00:00 Tools | |
38598856 | Play | Intern at Provident Hospital | 00:00 Tools | |
38598830 | Play | Sunday Morning Prophecy | 00:00 Tools | |
38598831 | Play | Too Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
38598861 | Play | I Sort of Went Backwards (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598868 | Play | There Are Certain Disadvantages (Commentary) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598853 | Play | Simple Prays a Prayer | 00:00 Tools | |
38598855 | Play | Democracy / Island | 00:00 Tools | |
38598845 | Play | Simple-Intro | 00:00 Tools | |
38598850 | Play | Madam and the Census Taker | 00:00 Tools | |
38598867 | Play | Wooing the Muse | 00:00 Tools | |
38598866 | Play | The Weary Blues Wide River Homesick Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598874 | Play | Night And Morn rom Jazz Canto | 00:00 Tools | |
38598878 | Play | Daybreak In Alabama from Jazz Canto | 00:00 Tools | |
38598909 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Negroes With the Spanish Explorers | 00:00 Tools | |
88279424 | Play | Introduction, (from "Simple Speaks His Mind") | 00:00 Tools | |
38598864 | Play | As I Grew Older | 00:00 Tools | |
38598865 | Play | Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed | 00:00 Tools | |
38598869 | Play | The Dream Keeper | 00:00 Tools | |
38598872 | Play | Fire | 00:00 Tools | |
38598897 | Play | Minstrel Man - Spoken;Unaccompanied;2008 Remastered Version | 00:00 Tools | |
38598870 | Play | Three Poems | 00:00 Tools | |
38598875 | Play | Long Trip | 00:00 Tools | |
38598876 | Play | When Sue Wears Red | 00:00 Tools | |
38598877 | Play | My People | 00:00 Tools | |
38598873 | Play | Langston Hughes Showcase | 00:00 Tools | |
38598880 | Play | Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks Of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598884 | Play | Dreams and Youth | 00:00 Tools | |
38598881 | Play | Elevator Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
38598891 | Play | Dreams / Youth (medley) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598886 | Play | Negro Dancers | 00:00 Tools | |
38598925 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley | 00:00 Tools | |
38598887 | Play | Could Be | 00:00 Tools | |
38598885 | Play | Note on Commercial Theatre | 00:00 Tools | |
38598882 | Play | Hey! - Too Blue - Ballad of the Fortune Teller | 00:00 Tools | |
38598883 | Play | 'Dreams' and 'Youth' | 00:00 Tools | |
89971728 | Play | Blues Montage (edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598888 | Play | The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (Intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598889 | Play | Negro Speaks Of Rivers (Intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598892 | Play | Langston Hughes - Negro | 00:00 Tools | |
38598893 | Play | Feet o' Jesus | 00:00 Tools | |
38598890 | Play | Langston Hughes - Merry-Go-Round | 00:00 Tools | |
38598895 | Play | Aunt Sue's Stories | 00:00 Tools | |
38598896 | Play | Wide River | 00:00 Tools | |
38598898 | Play | Wake | 00:00 Tools | |
38598899 | Play | Water-Front Streets | 00:00 Tools | |
38598894 | Play | Juke Box Love Song | 00:00 Tools | |
38598911 | Play | Democracy | 00:00 Tools | |
38598903 | Play | Genius Child | 00:00 Tools | |
38598901 | Play | One-Way Ticket | 00:00 Tools | |
38598931 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Sojourner Truth | 00:00 Tools | |
38598900 | Play | Dream Deferred | 00:00 Tools | |
38598905 | Play | Graduation | 00:00 Tools | |
38598902 | Play | I’m Gonna Testify | 00:00 Tools | |
88279426 | Play | Part Ii: The Glory: The Glory: Walt Whitman | 00:00 Tools | |
88279425 | Play | Portraits of Langston: I. Prelude. Helen Keller | 00:00 Tools | |
38598907 | Play | Hey (Night) / Too Blue / Ballad of the Fortune Teller | 00:00 Tools | |
38598908 | Play | Dream Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
88279427 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Old Riley | 00:00 Tools | |
38598904 | Play | Langston Hughes - Cultural Exchange | 00:00 Tools | |
38598910 | Play | Afro-American Fragment | 00:00 Tools | |
38598906 | Play | Dream Montage Tell Me Good Morning Harlem/Same In Blues Comment On Curb | 00:00 Tools | |
38598912 | Play | Mississippi Levee | 00:00 Tools | |
38598913 | Play | Dressed Up | 00:00 Tools | |
88279428 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman | 00:00 Tools | |
38598916 | Play | Reverie on the Harlem River | 00:00 Tools | |
38598919 | Play | Little Old Letter | 00:00 Tools | |
38598920 | Play | Midnight Raffle | 00:00 Tools | |
38598914 | Play | Testimonial - Judgment Day | 00:00 Tools | |
38598915 | Play | To Captain Mulzac | 00:00 Tools | |
38598917 | Play | Love Song For Lucinda | 00:00 Tools | |
38598918 | Play | Harlem | 00:00 Tools | |
38598924 | Play | Blues Montage (with Leonard Feather) | 00:00 Tools | |
88279443 | Play | Dressed Up / When Sue Wears Red / April Rain Song | 00:00 Tools | |
88279436 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Harriet Tubman, Pt. 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
88279431 | Play | Part Ii: The Glory: World War I | 00:00 Tools | |
88279429 | Play | Part Ii: The Glory: Booker T. Washington | 00:00 Tools | |
38598947 | Play | Projection | 00:00 Tools | |
88279430 | Play | African Dance / Dream Variation / The Negro Speaks of Rivers | 00:00 Tools | |
88279437 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Frederick Douglass | 00:00 Tools | |
38598923 | Play | Mystery | 00:00 Tools | |
88279439 | Play | As I Grew Older / I, Too | 00:00 Tools | |
38598934 | Play | Song For A Dark Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
88279432 | Play | Part II - The Glory: Ralph Bunche | 00:00 Tools | |
38598921 | Play | Harlem Sweeties | 00:00 Tools | |
38598948 | Play | Hey! Hey! | 00:00 Tools | |
88279433 | Play | Portraits of Langston: Introduction No. 2 "Danse africaine" | 00:00 Tools | |
38598922 | Play | Silhouette | 00:00 Tools | |
88279434 | Play | Part Ii: the Glory: George Washington Carver | 00:00 Tools | |
88279435 | Play | Part Ii: The Glory: Mary Mcleod Bethune | 00:00 Tools | |
88279444 | Play | Part I - The Struggle: Abraham Lincoln | 00:00 Tools | |
38598927 | Play | In Time Of Silver Rain | 00:00 Tools | |
38598936 | Play | Roland Hayes Beaten | 00:00 Tools | |
38598926 | Play | Dream Montage (Excerpt) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598937 | Play | Virooneh | 00:00 Tools | |
38598938 | Play | Taraneh | 00:00 Tools | |
88279440 | Play | Opening Blues / Blues Montage / Commercial Theatre / Morning After / Could Be / Testament | 00:00 Tools | |
38598941 | Play | Bound No'Th Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598942 | Play | Dream Montage | 00:00 Tools | |
89971729 | Play | Portraits of Langston: Introduction No. 4 "In Time of Silver Rain" | 00:00 Tools | |
38598945 | Play | Ballad of the Landlord | 00:00 Tools | |
88279441 | Play | Part Ii: The Glory: NAACP Founding and Activities | 00:00 Tools | |
88279442 | Play | Baby / Mother to Son / Dreams / Youth | 00:00 Tools | |
38598949 | Play | Judgement Day | 00:00 Tools | |
38598950 | Play | Flatted Fifths | 00:00 Tools | |
38598928 | Play | The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598929 | Play | Could Be - Bad Luck Card - Bad Man | 00:00 Tools | |
88279445 | Play | The Weary Blues / Wide River / Homesick Blues / Night and Morn | 00:00 Tools | |
88279446 | Play | The Dream Keeper: Dreams / Water-Front Street / Long Trip | 00:00 Tools | |
38598930 | Play | Oppression | 00:00 Tools | |
88279438 | Play | Explanation Of The Times | 00:00 Tools | |
38598932 | Play | Democracy / Island / extract from Warning: Augmented / Jump Monk | 00:00 Tools | |
38598933 | Play | Cross | 00:00 Tools | |
38598935 | Play | Langston Hughes | 00:00 Tools | |
38598939 | Play | Home Sick Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
38598940 | Play | The Kids in School With Me (Poem) | 00:00 Tools | |
38598944 | Play | Big Buddy | 00:00 Tools | |
89971730 | Play | Parisian Beggar Woman / Mexican Market Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
89971731 | Play | Landladies | 00:00 Tools | |
89971732 | Play | Lincoln Monument / Washington / Aunt Sue's Stories | 00:00 Tools | |
89971733 | Play | Seascape / Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
38598946 | Play | Merry-Go-Round (A Colored Child at Carnival) | 00:00 Tools | |
89971734 | Play | Parisian Beggar Woman / Mexican Market Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
89971735 | Play | Landladies | 00:00 Tools | |
89971736 | Play | Lincoln Monument / Washington / Aunt Sue's Stories | 00:00 Tools | |
89971737 | Play | Seascape / Sailor | 00:00 Tools | |
89971738 | Play | Daybreak in Alabama | 00:00 Tools | |
88279447 | Play | Judgment Day | 00:00 Tools | |
38598951 | Play | April Rain Song | 00:00 Tools | |
38598952 | Play | Miss Blues'es Child | 00:00 Tools |
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son's tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration," where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself." He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves." In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal, Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues" were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. Carter G. Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. He returned to his beloved Harlem later that year. Langston Hughes received a scholarship to Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, where he received his B.A. degree in 1929. In 1943, he was awarded an honorary Lit.D by his alma mater; a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 and a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1940. Based on a conversation with a man he knew in a Harlem bar, he created a character know as My Simple Minded Friend in a series of essays in the form of a dialogue. In 1950, he named this lovable character Jess B. Simple, and authored a series of books on him. Langston Hughes was a prolific writer. In the forty-odd years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. The long and distinguished list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First Book of Jazz (1955); Tambourines To Glory (1958); and Selected Poems (1959); The Best of Simple (1961). He edited several anthologies in an attempt to popularize black authors and their works. Some of these are: An African Treasury (1960); Poems from Black Africa (1963); New Negro Poets: USA (1964) and The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (1967). Published posthumously were: Five Plays By Langston Hughes (1968); The Panther and The Lash: Poems of Our Times (1969) and Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest (1973); The Sweet Flypaper of Life with Roy DeCarava (1984). Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967. His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission. His block of East 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place" . By: Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako) Langston Hughes a biography by Milton Meltzer 1968 Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks: A Reference Guide by R. Baxter Miller 1979 Langston Hughes, American Poet by Alice Walker 1974 Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti by Edward J. Mullen 1977 The World of Langston Hughes Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of Langston Hughes' Works with Recordings and Other Listings by Kenneth Neilson 1982 Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem by Faith Berry 1983 Langston Hughes and the Blues by Steven C. Tracy 1988 Langston Hughes: Black Genius, A Critical Evaluation edited by Therman B. O'Daniel 1977 The Life of Langston Hughes: Vol. I 1902-194, Too, Sing America and Vol. II 1941-1967 Dream A World by Arnold Rampersad 1986 From http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.