@article{1dbe3d7cc9e446579fb0c3d5fc3344ac,
title = "Literacy and Authenticity: The Blues Poems of Langston Hughes",
author = "David Chinitz",
note = "Langston Hughes was the first writer to grapple with the inherent difficulties of blues poetry, and he succeeded-not always, but often-in producing poems that manage to capture the quality of genuine blues in performance while remaining effective as poems. This essay will show how in inventing blues poetry Hughes solved the two closely related problems I have sketched: first, how to write blues lyrics in such a way that they work on the printed page, and second, how to exploit the blues form poetically without losing all sense of authenticity.",
year = "1996",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1353/cal.1996.0007",
language = "American English",
volume = "19",
journal = "Callaloo",
issn = "1080-6512",
number = "1",
}