Langston Collin Wilkins's guest appearances

Langston Collin Wilkins

Phantom Power

Folklife Today Podcast

Aaron Copland

John Biguenet

Robin James

Langston Hughes

Alan Lomax

Yoko Ono

Kate Carr

Jeremy Gilbert

Jacob Smith

Stacey Copeland

Chris Hoff

Shannon Mattern

Rodrigo Toscano

Frank Lantz

Barbara Miller

OwlTail

This episode looks at a “Hidden Folklorist” renowned as a poet and playwright: Langston Hughes. It includes interviews with folklorist Langston Collin Wilkins and Hughes scholar Sophie Abramowitz. Wilkins and Abramowitz show us how Langston Hughes’s folklore work was grounded in song collecting and vernacular expression, and committed to the visionary futurity of Black folkloric creativity. We also explore Hughes’s connections to the American Folklife Center archive, especially correspondence between Hughes and Alan Lomax that preserves perhaps the only known copies of some of Hughes’s collected songs, right here in the Library of Congress.

Hidden Folklorists: Langston Hughes, with guests Langston Collin Wilkins and Sophie Abramowitz

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Screwed & Chopped (Langston Collin Wilkins)