[PW] Re: Music for Langston Hughes class

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1925 Washington D.C. James Langston Hughes 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."
   
  Seems to me that music from that era would be very good. Also, Duke Ellington and James P. Johnson music. 
  
Robin Shapiro <robin.shapiro at pcc.edu> wrote:
  Fellow Marsupials --

One of our professors wants to select some appropriate music to play 
for his class when he discusses Langston Hughes and jazz poetry. I 
don't know enough about Hughes to recommend specific bands or artists 
-- but I hope some womb at t can help. 

Robin


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