Langston Hughes and the Blues Julia McConville The Muse Is Music deftly

The Muse Is Music deftly applies the methodology of textual close reading to a critical ''close listening'' of American poetry's resonant soundscape

The effects of physical changes on the individual are examined in terms of identity

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Langston Hughes and the Blues Julia McConville The Muse Is Music deftlyThe shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes's experimental forms reflect the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the music. Tracy also offers a discography of