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Audio Recording Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz

Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz

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This episode looks at a “Hidden Folklorist” renowned as a poet and playwright: Langston Hughes. It includes interviews with folklorist Langston Collin Wilkins and Hughes scholar Sophie Abramowitz. Wilkins and Abramowitz show us how Langston Hughes’s folklore work was grounded in song collecting and vernacular expression, and committed to the visionary futurity of Black folkloric creativity. We also explore Hughes’s connections to the American Folklife Center archive, especially correspondence between Hughes and Alan Lomax that preserves perhaps the only known copies of some of Hughes’s collected songs, right here in the Library of Congress.

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Title

  • Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz

Running Time

  • 38:14

Speakers

  • Stephen Winick
  • John Fenn
  • Langston Collin Wilkins
  • Mississippi John Hurt
  • Sophie Abramowitz
  • Buena Flint

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  • web page
  • pdf
  • audio

Podcast Series

  • Folklife Today

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Chicago citation style:

Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz. 2021. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2021-06-30/hidden-folklorists-langston-hughes-with-guests-langston-collin-wilkins-and-sophie-abramowitz/.

APA citation style:

(2021) Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2021-06-30/hidden-folklorists-langston-hughes-with-guests-langston-collin-wilkins-and-sophie-abramowitz/.

MLA citation style:

Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz. 2021. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/podcasts/2021-06-30/hidden-folklorists-langston-hughes-with-guests-langston-collin-wilkins-and-sophie-abramowitz/>.