Journal of American Folklore, October 1st, 2005
Langston Hughes and the Blues. By Steven C. Tracy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 305, introduction to the paperback edition, introduction, notes, bibliography, discography, indexes.) The release of the first paperback edition of Steven C. Tracy's Langston Hughes and the Blues, originally published in 1988, coincided with Hughes's one hundredth birthday on February 1,2002. In this book Steven Tracy, himself a talented blues musician and the author of many contributions to blues scholarship, explores Hughes's appropriation of blues forms and themes in his poetry througho...
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