The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic worksUniversity of Missouri Press, 2001 - 690 من الصفحات Although Langston Hughes had a lifelong engagement in theater and other performance arts, his work in this area is the least known of his rich and complex contributions to African American expressive culture. This volume focuses on Hughes's plays after 1942, along with all of his other work written for performance, including operas, musicals, radio plays, ballet librettos, and song lyrics, all of which demonstrate his strong determination to inject an African American presence into a range of cultural forms. If Hughes's contributions to African American theater in the 1930s were foundational, in his later stage career he created the theatrical form for which he is best known, the gospel play. Taking advantage of gospel music's crossover success in the 1950s, Hughes wrote four such plays; his most famous, Black Nativity, not only was a hit in New York, but it also toured Europe and is still a Christmas tradition in many African American churches. Generally, Hughes achieved more commercial stage success in this later period. As lyricist for Kurt Weill's Street Scene, he experienced Broadway acclaim; he turned his Simple stories into a musical, Simply Heavenly, and wrote his gospel-musical Tambourines to Glory. In fact, aside from a few educational or occasional pieces, virtually all of Hughes's stage writing after 1942 incorporated music in some form. He wrote five complete operas and several cantatas, as well as the musicals and gospel plays, and hundreds of song lyrics. Hughes's intense engagement with theater and other performance arts lasted more than thirty-five years. In every genre he attempted, Hughes left unforgettable and inspiring work, giving rise to the range and richness of contemporary African American theatrical achievement. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Operas | 13 |
An Opera in Three Acts 1937 1949 | 15 |
A Blues Opera in One Act 1940 | 52 |
An Opera 1950 | 67 |
Opera in Three Acts 1956 | 102 |
An Opera In One Act 1960 | 137 |
Musicals | 157 |
Booker T Washington in Atlanta 1940 | 472 |
Brothers 1942 | 480 |
A Radio Script 1943 | 488 |
In the Service of My Country 1944 | 497 |
Ballet Librettos | 507 |
A Ballet Libretto 1941 | 510 |
A Ballet Libretto Based on the Famous American Classic by W C Handy 1941 | 513 |
Blues to Bebop Ballet 1951 | 518 |
Tropics after Dark 1940 | 159 |
A Comedy 1957 | 179 |
A Panorama in Music and Motion of the History of Negro Dancing 1960 | 246 |
A Song Play 1963 | 254 |
A Comedy 1963 | 276 |
Gospel Plays | 347 |
A Passion Play 1962 | 375 |
A Gospel SongPlay Based on the Bible and the Negro Spirituals 1962 | 403 |
A SongPlay with Traditional Spirituals Gospel Hymns and Songs Illuminating the Bible Story Retold 1965 | 418 |
Miscellaneous Plays | 431 |
For This We Fight 1943 | 434 |
The Negros Part in Suffrage An Historical Sequence 1956 | 459 |
Radio Plays | 469 |
A Ballet 1953 | 526 |
A Dance Sequence for a Man a Woman and Two Narrators 1961 | 535 |
Bessie Smith Descends 1961 | 547 |
A Ballet Libretto Date Unknown | 552 |
A Ballet Libretto Date Unknown | 556 |
Lyrics from Musicals | 563 |
A Musical Comedy 1950 | 571 |
Cantatas | 589 |
A Song for the Dedication and Daily Rededication of a Church 1955 | 596 |
A Cantata of the Resurrection 1957 | 598 |
A Christmas Carol 1960 | 602 |
Let Us Remember 1965 | 605 |
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