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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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 Posted - 09/13/2004 : 13:57:30
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Though I've been familiar with Hughes for some time, I've only recently fully appreciated him. I never realized what a satirist he was. Maybe not satire. I'm not sure. There's some kind of humor flowing through his work. I recently read the short story Slave on the Block which is about a rich, trendy, yuppy white couple who jump on a 'Negro appreciation' trend. They think it's cool to appreciate black people as, well, basically a novelty. They think they're all liberal for it, but they're just as racist as the people who would have nothing to do with black people.
And of course there's Montage of a Dream Deferred. I need to read through that one again. There's a lot of good stuff there. I've also recently discovered Gil Scott Heron, best known for The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Televized?). I heard the recording of it and I'll be damned, it sounds like Public Enemy 15 years before Public Enemy ever recorded anything. It's a very early form of rap. Whitey On The Moon is great, too. You must listen to those recordings if you haven't heard them. I need to pick up a copy myself, I've only heard Whitey and Revolution once. Maybe when I have some money.
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Langston Hughes and Gil Scott Heron
