Websites
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Good information on the musical tradition behind "The Weary Blues."
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A Huge amount of background on the Harlem Renaissance.
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This is a Yale website complete with photos, manuscripts, and audio.
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Great background to The Weary Blues collection of poems.
Video
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This is a good example of a reading to music and a montage of the touristy era of Harlem.
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This is a more upbeat version of the poet reading his own poem.
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This is a seven minute video biography with another, more upbeat version of Hughes reading "The Weary Blues" with piano accompaniment.
Audio
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Images
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This is the cover of the first edition of Langston Hughes's first collection of poetry.
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Here is a picture of a younger Langston Hughes.
Books
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This is Hughes's autobiography that he first published in the 1940s.
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This is a more recent bio on the poet by Laurie F. Leach.
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Steven C. Tracey provides information on the influence of the blues tradition on Hughes.
Movie or TV Productions
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