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Weary Blues: Poetry and Jazz from Langston Hughes

This exhibition is inspired by a recent addition to the Music Library: a CD recording of "The Langston Hughes Project Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz."

From UCSB Art Collection

From UCSB Black Studies Collection

From UCSB Music Collection

CDs

  • Weary blues. Read by Langston Hughes; music by Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus. 1958/R New York: PolyGram Records, 1990. Music Service Desk   XCD 3505
  • The Langston Hughes project : Ask your mama: 12 moods for jazz (Live at the Huntington Library). Produced by Ron McCurdy. Los Angeles: Rennaisance Griot, 2013.  Music Service Desk   XCD 16,098
  • New York: CBS Records Masterworks, 1987. Music Service Desk   XCD 947
  • The Beat Generation. Santa Monica, CA: Rhino/Word Beat, 1992. Music Service Desk   XCD 9688
  • Elie Siegmeister. New York, NY: CRI, 1999. Music Service Desk   XCD 6740

LPs

  • Langston Hughes reads and talks about his poems. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Spoken Arts, 1970. Music Service Desk   YL2 243
  • Hughes, Langston. Jerico-Jim Crow. New York City: Folkways Records, 1964.  Music Service Desk   YL2 567

Scores

  • Street scene: an American opera. Music by Kurt Weill; book by Elmer Rice; lyrics by Langston Hughes. Vocal score. New York : Chappell Music, 1948.   Music General Collection M1503.W43 S8 194

Books

  • O'Meally, Robert G., ed. The jazz cadence of American culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.    Music General Collection ML3508 .J38 1998