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	Hughes reading From Looking for Langston by Issac Julien [SanKoFa Film and Video 1989] Performance of "Listen Here Blues" Reading of the poem "Harlem" James Baldwin on reading Hughes' poetry Hughes on writing about Harlem Hughes on social action's two minds All other video clips from From Voices & Visions [© The New York Center for Visual History, 1988]
	From The Voice of Langston Hughes [© 1995 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings] Albert As I Go (from Tambourines to Glory) Breath of a Spiritual (Feet O' Jesus) Dreams Feet Live Their Own Life (from Simple Speaks His Mind) I'm Gonna Testify (from Tambourines to Glory) Homesick Blues I, Too Ma Lord Mother to Son The Negro Speaks of Rivers Night and Morn Prayer Prayer Meeting Rhythms of the World (excerpt based on The First Book of Rhythms) Introduction of Simple (from Simple Speaks His Mind) Simple Prays a Prayer (from Simple Speaks His Mind) The Struggle (from The Glory of Negro History) The Story of the Blues (excerpt from The Story of Jazz, based on The First Book of Jazz) The Weary Blues Youth
	From Langston Hughes Reads (BBC broadcasts, 1962 & 1964) [© BBC Enterprises 1962 & 1964. Published by HarperCollins 1980 & 1992] One Way Ticket One Way Ticket Commentary The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Negro Speaks of Rivers Commentary Puzzled Puzzled Commentary Trumpet Player: 52nd Street Trumpet Player: 52nd Street Commentary Ballad of the Gypsy Kid Sleepy Southern Mammy Songs Migrant Migrant Commentary Mama and Daughter Sylvester's Dying Bed Sylvester's Dying Bed Commentary Intern at Provident Hospital Intern at Provident Hospital Commentary Merry Go Round Ku Klux Klan The South Mulatto Out of Work In Explanation of Our Times Dinner Guest: Me Cultural Exchange
	The Weary Blues - a suite of poems set to a jazz background by Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather, featuring the Horace Parlan Trio and an All-Star Sextet. A seamless recording comprising: Blues Montage; Opening Blues; Blues Montage; Commercial Theater; Morning After; Could Be; Testament; Consider Me; The Stranger; Midnight Stroll; Backstage; Dream Montage; Weird Nightmare; Double G Train; Jump Monk. (© 1990 Polygram Records, Inc.)
	Songs by Langston Hughes African Lady (music by Randy Weston) performed by Abbey Lincoln (1961) (© 1989 Candid Productions) Baby, What's Your Alibi? (music by David Martin) performed by Nellie Lutcher (1950) (© 1995 Capitol Records) A Boy Like You Lonely Home (a.k.a. Lonely House) (music by Kurt Weill) performed by the cast of Street Scene (1947) (© CBS Masterworks) Backlash Blues (music by Nina Simone) performed by Nina Simone (ca. 1982) (© 1998 Intermusic S.A.) Freedom Road (music by Emerson Harper) performed by Josh White (1944) (© 1998 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings) Love Is Like Whiskey (music by Roger Segure) performed by Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters (1938) (© 1994 Classics Records)
	Musical Settings of Poems by Langston Hughes Minstrel Man (music by Margaret Bonds) Dream Variations (music by Margaret Bonds) I, Too (music by Margaret Bonds) Death of an Old Seaman (music by Cecil Cohen) Faithful One (music by Robert Owens) Genius Child (music by Robert Owens) Song to the Dark Virgin (music by Florence B. Price) The Negro Speaks of Rivers (music by Howard Swanson) performed by Odekhiren Amaize, Bass-Baritone, and David Korevaar, Piano (1998) (© 1999 Odekhiren Amaize) Madame and the Rent Man (music by Elie Siegmeister) performed by Esther Hinds, soprano, and Alan Mandel, piano [??? On CD] (© 1999 Composers Recordings, Inc.)