Jazz and Poetry UTA爵士乐和诗歌译作.pptVIP

Jazz and Poetry Cross-Fertilization Langston Hughes Born in Kansas, 1902 Similar time frame to Ellington, Louis Armstrong High School in Cleveland Studied Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman Influenced by Sandburg’s Jazz Fantasies, (1919) Fused poetry and the music of black “Americans as the prime source and expression of their cultural truths” (Rampersand, Rossel, Collected Langston Hughes) First collection of poetry: The Weary Blues Thought poetry is a source of social expression and pragmatism Jazz Fantasia(Carl Sandburg -1919) Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes, sob on the long cool w