Hughes felt that whites often distorted the picture of blacks and wrote about them only for personal financial gains. Use the reading material we studied in class for support and cite sources. Index cards available upon request. The author of the post believes that the media shapes popular culture. Introduce terms and allusions from the poem.
Blues are sorrow songs of the common Negro.
And you mixed 'em up with symphonies. Porggy, a popular drama by Debose Heyward, a white playwright, was produced in 1927. Spirituals added to its emotional appeal. It contained voodoo chants and dances. Carmen Jones, a musical, was a white-created Negro version of Bizet's Carmen.