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From the Who-Knew department: In the 1940s and 1950s, Langston Hughes collected advertisements for “rent parties” in Harlem, wherein hosts would open up their apartments for a night and offer live music, dancing, and socializing in exchange for a cover fee – like vintage AirBnb for entertainment. Also a little-known Hughes treasure: His illustrated 1954 children’s book on jazz history. 

From the Who-Knew department: In the 1940s and 1950s, Langston Hughes collected advertisements for “rent parties” in Harlem, wherein hosts would open up their apartments for a night and offer live music, dancing, and socializing in exchange for a cover fee – like vintage AirBnb for entertainment.

Also a little-known Hughes treasure: His illustrated 1954 children’s book on jazz history. 

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3-18-2013
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New Orleans cellist and banjo player Leyla McCalla is setting Langston Hughes’s poetry to song, blending it with Haitian folk music and original compositions – absolutely amazing. Best thing since Langston Hughes’s little-known vintage children’s book about jazz.

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12-13-2012