TROPINGS AND GROUPINGS: JAZZ ARTISTRY, ACTIVISM AND CULTURAL MEMORY IN LANGSTON HUGHES'S "ASK YOUR MAMA"

Langston Hughes, in the stanzas of Ask Your Mama, follows the compositional pattern of jazz "interplay and interaction" that are foundational in improvisation. In the poem, such pattern functions in an intertextual context and reveals the wide spectrum of African American cultural memory....

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