Tuesday, February 01, 2011

"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes



I needed a video to fill in this spot, and a cursory search of the name Langston Hughes yielded this exemplary rendition of his 1923 poem The Weary Blues, recited by Harvard professor Allen Dwight Callahan to the accompaniment of Cab Calloway.
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Anonymous said...

This helped me soooo much with in my speech course. His style is so smooth and bright.