蓝斯顿休斯是个用文字来表达自己的艺术家，但他也受到其他型态的艺术影响，所以他的作品跨越到其他的媒体。休斯被视为文艺复兴人，即兴趣广泛多方才艺的人。1920年代的哈林文艺复兴运动是住在纽约市的非裔美人用来颂扬己身文化的活动，而爵士及蓝调则是这项运动中不可或缺的要素 。休斯表示爵士及蓝调传达涵盖广泛的黑人经历，起自悲伤、难过，终于希望、决心。1958年，休斯录制他的诗作时，即邀请知名的享利「红」艾伦乐团 (Henry "Red" Allen Band)担任伴奏的工作 。爵士的节奏也影响了他1951年的作品「缓梦蒙太奇」(Montage of a Dream Deferred)，这是一则书本长度的诗集，共分五 段，各别使用音乐、诗歌及历史来描述非裔美人的城市经历。


Langston Hughes was an artist who used words to express himself, but other forms of art influenced him, and his work crossed over into other mediums. Hughes was considered a Renaissance man, someone who has wide interests and is talented in many areas. Jazz and blues were key elements of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, a time when African Americans in a section of New York City started a movement to celebrate their culture. Hughes said that jazz and blues expressed the wide range of black America's experience, from grief and sadness to hope and determination. The famous Henry "Red" Allen Band accompanied Hughes in a 1958 poetry recording. The rhythms of jazz also influenced his 1951 Montage of a Dream Deferred. This was a book-length poem in five sections depicting the African American urban experience using music, poetry, and history.

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