Theme for English B

Theme for English B

Introduction

The themes for English B provides a great opportunity for bringing both the historical and formal studies of music in the English classroom with relation to the Hughes work of literary period the language display, rhyme and rhythm of poem shows the instrumental and organizational tendencies of the bebop which is a revolutionized form of jazz that started after the second world war the content in the work of Hughes highlights the reassertion of bebop of the cultural identity of African American at the time when the main dominating culture incorporated the older from of jazz due to which it eliminated its importance as being the musical expression of the racial identity and difference. The studying and listening to bebop is the classes for the poems of Hughes engages the students in a very essential interpretive journey in which examination is made of the form, investigation of the racial and historical politics along with encouraging the interdisciplinary connections which are present between the music, history and literature (Otto, 2007).

Discussion

Musical and Historical Contexts

In order to understand the work of Hughes, it is important to look at the history. Swing is regarded as one of the main style of the musical linage that has its roots in the African American and American culture it consists of Dixieland jazz, blues, spirituals, hollers of slaves and the swing music which was done in the Harlem dancehalls. This swing was also very famous in the middle class whites in the 9th century. There are thirty years which have passed the between the starting of the era of swing and the end of legal discrimination and segregation. The co-optation of Swing in the main America did not adopt the culture of African American and rather flattened the historical and cultural meaning ...