Items for Thursday include:
Keep working on your group annotations. You should have final drafts of all your group annotations online by Thursday morning!
Take a look at this rendition of Duke Ellington’s signature number – – “Take the A Train” (above). Let’s chat a bit in class about how this representation of swing jazz possibly connects with some of the modernist themes we’ve talked about in class.
Read our collection of Langston Hughes poems. You should annotate as you read. (The usual 3 quality annotations.) Also, try to get a look at Alain Locke’s essay, “The New Negro.” This essay will add some new dimensions to Hughes’ arguments in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” and supply some important contexts for Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.