Langston Hughes
Paper, Presentations, Exams and Projects
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An Excellent Langston Hughes site
-This is a segment of the site devoted to the PBS series on poets and poetry, "Voices and Visions." Explore...and here's a link to the entire Voices and Visions program on Hughes (best played with the Windows Media Player): http://www.learner.org/vod/asx/csupomona/Voices_and_Visions_06.asx
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Some texts by Langston Hughes
-Word Document
-This word file contains texts for many songs by Swanson and Ricky Ian Gordon.
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Strange Hurt: A song cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon, with texts by Langston Hughes.
-This folder contains ten songs by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon, set to texts by Langston Hughes.
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
-MP3
-Here's the sound file for this song. The volume is unusually low...
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Genius Child, by Robert Owens
-MP3
-Here's a setting of Langston Hughes's poem "Genius Child." You can read more about Robert Owens at http://www.darryltaylor.com/alliance/owens.bio.html