USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Langston Hughes was the only black writer during the Renaissance who became truly taken with jazz; he infused his poetry with the sounds and feeling of the blues–its improvisational nature, syncopated rhythms, and repetitive phrases–creating a powerful challenge to the status quo.

Detailed explanation-2: -Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the art form called “Jazz Poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Detailed explanation-3: -Early on, Hughes’s love for the music found its way to the page, giving rise to the fusion genre known as jazz poetry. In the same vein as his beliefs about jazz, Hughes felt that jazz poetry could be a uniquely African-American literary form, distinctive among the venerable-and very white-poetic canon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hughes cited Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, and Paul Laurence Dunbar as major influences. He used his poetry and prose to reflect the culture and experiences of Black Americans.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hughes became firmly established as a successful writer in Nineteen-Twenty-Six with the publication of a collection of jazz poems called “The Weary Blues.” Hughes wrote the poems in a place in Harlem where blues music was played. He loved to write while sitting in clubs listening to blues and jazz.