As a single of the founders of the cultural motion acknowledged as the Harlem Renaissance, which he virtually defined in his essay, he was progressive in his use of jazz rhythms and dialect to depict the daily life of urban blacks in his poetry, tales, and plays. Obtaining presented the lyrics for the musical Road Scene (1977) and the perform that inspired the opera Troubled Island (1989), in the 1960s he returned to the phase with works that drew on black gospel audio, such as Black Nativity …
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