Hughes wrote in many genres, but he is best known for his poetry in which he disregarded classical forms in favor of musical rhythms and the oral and improvisatory traditions of black culture. http://myhero.com/hero.asp?... Hughes' poetry announced to the world that the streets of black America were culturally rich, vibrant and fiercely poetic. ... From the mid-1920s through the mid-1930s, some 16 black writers published more than 50 volumes of poetry and fiction, The Harlem Renaissance appealed to a mixed audience. ... Magazines as The Crisis, a monthly journal of the NAACP, and Opportu...

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His poetry, spanning five decades from 1926 to 1967, reflected the changing black experience in America, from the Harlem Renaissance to the confused sixties. ... The tone and subject matter of Hughes' poetry can be linked to certain points in history, and his life. ... Although scholars and critics throughout his career dismissed his poetry as too "simple and unlearned,"" his primary audience, the black masses, and even Hughes himself viewed his work as "folk poetry- which was beneath criticism (Rampersad 4-5). ...

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The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from the fiction of James Weldon Johnson and the poetry of Claude Mckay which described the reality of black life in America and the struggle for racial identity. ... Also the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the fiction of Charles W. ...

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First, in 1922 Claude McKay was the first black writer that published a volume of poetry "Harlem Shadows" by a mainstream national publisher. Second, in 1923 was by Jean Toomer who wrote a novel named "Cane" that had both poetry and prose that was about the life of black Americans in the rural South and urban North. ... Hughes wrote literary types of writing like poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. ...

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The Harlem Renaissance was a very important African-American cultural and social movement during the early twentieth century. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that African-American artists and authors were taken seriously by American society. During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music, theater, art, and politics flourished. The African-American artists and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance were some of the most famous of the twentieth century. The Harlem Renaissance was the single most significant event in modern African-American history (McKissack 11). ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ...

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Oppression and marginalization of youth minorities over thirty years ago had led to the creation of the music and culture that is known as Hip-hop. Experiences of discrimination and hardship translated into rhythm and poetry became the widely renowned music genre that the world has come to know. Hip...

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