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Tambourines to Glory

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307498212
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Tambourines to Glory written by Langston Hughes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons. For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox. Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief. Essie wants to somehow earn enough money to reunite with her daughter and provide her with a nice home; Laura loves young men, mink coats, and fine Scotch. On a day of inspiration, the friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and a layaway Bible to start a church. Their sidewalk services are a hit: Laura’s a natural street performer who loves the limelight, while Essie is a charismatic singer with a quiet spirituality. Before long they move to a thousand-seat theatre called the Tambourine Temple. The two women are joined in their ministering by Birdie Lee, the little-old-lady trap drummer who can work the congregation to a feverish pitch, and Deacon Crow-For-Day, an impassioned confessor. But then Laura falls for Buddy, a scam artist who suggests selling to the faithful lucky numbers from Scripture and bottles of tap water as “Holy Water from the Jordan.” Even with a Cadillac and piles of money from Laura, Buddy won’t stay faithful, igniting a crime of passion and betrayal. Harlem Moon Classics is proud to reintroduce readers of all generations to this sparkling gem from the canon of Langston Hughes.

Tambourines to Glory

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tambourines to Glory written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tambourines to Glory

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781428130043
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Tambourines to Glory written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wizard of Oz

Five Plays by Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253201218
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Five Plays by Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1963-01-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.

The Development of Black Theater in America

Author : Leslie Catherine Sanders
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807115824
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Black Theater in America written by Leslie Catherine Sanders and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Development of Black Theater in America, Leslie Sanders examines the work of the American black theater’s five most productive playwrights: Willis Richardson, Randolph Edmonds, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, and Ed Bullins. Sanders sees the history of black theater as the process of creating a “black stage reality” while at the same time transforming conventions borrowed from white European culture into forms appropriate to black artists and audiences. The author argues that only when these things were accomplished could the aim of black playwrights, often articulated as “the realistic portrayal of the Negro,” be fully realized. This study also examines the changing nature of the dialogue black playwrights have held with the dominant tradition and how that dialogue has shaped their imaginations. Sanders’ discussion of Richardson, Edmonds, Hughes, Jones, and Bullins provides a context for approaching the work of other black playwrights, such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Owen Dodson. And her argument provides a concrete way of understanding how the context of a dominant culture influences the artistic imagination of writers not of that culture, who must come to terms with its influences and transform it into a vehicle of their own.

Langston's Salvation

Author : Wallace D. Best
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479834890
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Langston's Salvation written by Wallace D. Best and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for Langston -- New territory for new Negroes -- Poems of a religious nature -- Concerning "goodbye, Christ"--My Gospel year -- Christmas in black -- Do nothing till you hear from me

Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope

Author : Micki Grant
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573680809
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope written by Micki Grant and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dynamic mixture of rock, calypso and ballads features a dozen singer-dancers in 20 numbers. In revue-style format, Don't Bother Me ... explores the African American experience through vibrant song and dance."--Publisher

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826214775
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works written by Langston Hughes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.

Bloom's How to Write about Langston Hughes

Author : James B. Kelley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438128703
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Bloom's How to Write about Langston Hughes written by James B. Kelley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on writing essays about the works of Langston Hughes and lists sample topics.

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The novels: Not without laughter and Tambourines to glory

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The novels: Not without laughter and Tambourines to glory written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the full text of Langston Hughes' novels "Not Without Laughter" and "Tambourines to Glory."

The African American Theatrical Body

Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503596
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The African American Theatrical Body written by Soyica Diggs Colbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deploy performances to re-situate black people in time and space. The study examines African American plays past and present, including A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for Mister Charlie and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, demonstrating how African American dramatists stage black performances in their plays as acts of recuperation and restoration, creating sites that have the potential to repair the damage caused by slavery and its aftermath.

The Black Circuit

Author : Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351401629
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Black Circuit written by Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre presents the first book-length study of Chitlin Circuit theatre, the most popular and controversial form of Black theatre to exist outside the purview of Broadway since the 1980s. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon links the fraught racial histories in American slave plantations and early African American cuisine to the performance sites of nineteenth-century minstrelsy, early-twentieth-century vaudeville, and mid-twentieth-century gospel musicals. The Black Circuit traces this rise of a Black theatrical popular culture that exemplifies W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1926 parameters of "for us, near us, by us, and about us," with critical differences that, McMahon argues, complicate our understanding of performance and spectatorship in African American theatre. McMahon shows how an integrated and evolving network of consumerism, culture, circulation, exchange, ideologies, and meaning making has emerged in the performance environments of Chitlin Circuit theatre that is reflective of the broader influences at play in acts of minority spectatorship. She labels this network the Black Circuit.

Langston's Salvation

Author : Wallace D. Best
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479847399
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Langston's Salvation written by Wallace D. Best and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion A new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston Hughes Langston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought of Langston Hughes. Known for his poetry, plays, and social activism, the importance of religion in Hughes’ work has historically been ignored or dismissed. This book puts this aspect of Hughes work front and center, placing it into the wider context of twentieth-century American and African American religious cultures. Best brings to life the religious orientation of Hughes work, illuminating how this powerful figure helped to expand the definition of African American religion during this time. Best argues that contrary to popular perception, Hughes was neither an avowed atheist nor unconcerned with religious matters. He demonstrates that Hughes’ religious writing helps to situate him and other black writers as important participants in a broader national discussion about race and religion in America. Through a rigorous analysis that includes attention to Hughes’s unpublished religious poems, Langston’s Salvation reveals new insights into Hughes’s body of work, and demonstrates that while Hughes is seen as one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, his writing also needs to be understood within the context of twentieth-century American religious liberalism and of the larger modernist movement. Combining historical and literary analyses with biographical explorations of Langston Hughes as a writer and individual, Langston’s Salvation opens a space to read Langston Hughes’ writing religiously, in order to fully understand the writer and the world he inhabited.

The Roving Tree

Author : Elsie Augustave
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751731
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Roving Tree written by Elsie Augustave and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fresh new voice who adds her own charming, beguiling brand of lyricism to the growing body of Haitian American stories . . . a unique and fascinating book.” —Lorna Goodison, author of From Harvey River One of the South Florida Times’s Best Bets For Your Weekend An Essence Magazine Summer Reading Pick Iris Odys, is the offspring of Hagathe, a Haitian maid, and Brahami, a French-educated mixed-race father who cares little about his child. Hagathe, who’d always dreamt of a better life for her daughter, is presented with the perfect opportunity when Iris is five years old. Adopted by a white American couple, an anthropologist and an art gallery owner, Iris is transported from her tiny remote Haitian village, Monn Neg, to an American suburb. The Roving Tree illuminates how imperfectly assimilated adoptees struggle to remember their original voices and recapture their personal histories. Set between two worlds, suburban America and Haiti under the oppressive regime of Papa Doc’s Tonton Macoutes, the novel offers a unique literary glimpse into the deeply entrenched class discrimination and political repression of Haiti during the Duvalier era, along with the subtle but dangerous effects of American racism. Told from beyond the grave and underscored by the spiritual wisdom of Haitian griots, The Roving Tree explores separation and loss, rootlessness, the impact of class privilege and color consciousness, and the search for cultural identity. “A well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage . . . a polished narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews “With her skillful incorporation of literary realism, Augustave brilliantly synthesizes the cultural richness of Haitian Vodou and the impoverished socio-political affairs of Haiti, along with the acidic polluted gush of racism that is deeply drenched in American society.” —Haitian Times “A stunning tale with beautiful language that dwells in the realm of magical realism . . . The characters are rich, complicated and full of color and nuance.” —Mosaic Magazine “A gorgeous new novel about a Haitian adoptee finding her way in many different corners of the world.” —Edwidge Danticat, in the New York Times’ By the Book feature

Langston Hughes

Author : C. James Trotman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815317630
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by C. James Trotman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Langston Hughes

Author : Laurie Leach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313085587
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Laurie Leach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography traces Hughes' life and artistic development, from his early years of isolation, which fostered his fierce independence, to his prolific life as a poet, playwright, lyricist, and journalist. Hughes' inspiring story is told through 21 engaging chapters, each providing a fascinating vignette of the artistic, personal, and political associations that shaped his life. Recounted are the pivotal developments in his literary career, with all its struggles and rewards, as well as his travel adventures to Africa, Europe, and Asia, and his political commitments to fight fascism as well as racism. Langston Hughes was raised by a grandmother who actively aided the Underground Railroad, and his first forays into poetry reflected personal tales of slavery and heroism. Through his poetry, Hughes lived up to a proud tradition and continued the uplifting legacy of his race. He was a renaissance man in nearly every aspect of his life, and his name has become synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance movement he helped launch. This biography traces Hughes' life and artistic development, from his early years of isolation, which fostered his fierce independence, to his prolific life as a poet, playwright, lyricist, and journalist. Hughes' inspiring story is told through 21 engaging chapters, each providing a fascinating vignette of the artistic, personal, and political associations that shaped his life. Recounted are the pivotal developments in his literary career, with all its struggles and rewards, as well as his travel adventures to Africa, Europe, and Asia, and his political commitments to fight fascism as well as racism. A timeline, a selected bibliography of biographical and critical sources, and a complete list of Hughes' writings complete the volume.

That Is My Dream!

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN 13 : 0399550194
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book That Is My Dream! written by Langston Hughes and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of Float. To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done…. Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork. Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun. Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant—and necessary—today as when it was first written.