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In terms of current Afro-American popular music and the sources from which it progressed—jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop—this poem on contemporary Harlem, like be-bop, is marked by conflicting changes, sudden nuances, sharp and impudent interjections, broken rhythms, and passages sometimes in the manner of a jam ...
"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, [1] "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity. It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year. The poem was included in Hughes's first book, a collection of poems, also entitled The Weary Blues. [2]
Jelly Roll: A Blues is a 2003 poetry collection by Kevin Young. The 208-page book – Young's third – is named for jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton and develops a blues-based collection of love poems, [1] written predominantly in two-line stanzas. [2] In 2003, it was a National Book Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. [3]
Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" [1] and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject, [2] and is designed to be performed. Some critics consider it a distinct genre though others consider the term to be merely descriptive.
In the play, the poem was put to music by the composer Benjamin Britten and read as a blues work. [2] Hedli Anderson, an English singer, was a lead performer in The Ascent of F6. [2] Auden decided to re-write several poems for Anderson to perform as cabaret songs, including "Funeral Blues", and was working on them as early as 1937. [3]
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ...
[9] Blues standards that appeared on the main charts [b] in the 1960s and 1970s often had been recorded by rhythm and blues, soul, and rock musicians. [10] Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.
Mexico City Blues is a long poem by Jack Kerouac, composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959.Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem is the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose technique, his Buddhist faith, emotional states, and disappointment with his own creativity—including his failure to publish a novel between 1950's The Town and the City and the more ...