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    Information on Langston Hughes & Margaret Danner album wanted!

    Does anyone have any information about the album Writers Of The Revolution by Langston Hughes and Margaret Danner? The album was released on the Black Forum label in 1970 and the only references I can find are the front cover and a track listing of Part 1 and Part 2. I suspect that the album comprises Margaret Danner reading Langston Hughes poems, based on the fact that Hughes died in 1967. If so, does anyone know what poems are featured? Any other information on the album would be most appreciated!

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    I don't the album, however I found the link below where you can download.

    http://www.discogs.com/Langston-Hugh...release/817898

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    Just listening to the first couple of minutes of the album. It appears to begin with a discussion between Hughes and Danner about African art. Given this and the fact that Hughes died in 1967, it can only be an old recording made prior to his death.

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    I read somewhere that Margaret Danner was in correspondence with Langston Hughes, possibly around the late 1940s. If the recording I refer to was an old recording, does anyone know when it might have been recorded?

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    This is information listed in the Library of Congress Library.

    Writers of the revolution Langston Hughes & Margaret Danner.

    LC control no.: 92788680
    LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/92788680
    Type of material: Nonmusic Sound Recording
    Personal name: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
    Main title: Writers of the revolution [sound recording] / Langston Hughes & Margaret Danner.
    Published/Created: [Detroit, Mich.] : Black Forum, c1970.
    Related names: Danner, Margaret.
    Description: 1 sound disc [[46 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.
    Publisher no.: BF 453 Black Forum
    H-1725 Black Forum
    H-1726 Black Forum
    Summary: Presents the two poets reading their poems to each other and conversing about them. The poetry ranges from personal and lyrical verse to cultural and social commentary.
    Notes: Black Forum: H-1725--H-1726 [[label)
    Subjects: American poetry --African American authors.
    African Americans --Poetry.
    American poetry --20th century.
    LC classification: Black Forum BF 453

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    Look at Suzanne Smith's Book Dancing in the Street. There is a whole discussion of the history of this recording.

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    Many thanks for that - I'll search out a copy of the book!

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