Name: Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
Brand: Leyla McCalla

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SFW40241.2

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-10-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

093074024126

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Artist

Leyla McCalla

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Smithsonian/Folkways

Leyla McCalla's Vari-Colored Songs is a celebration of the complexity of Black culture and identity, and a tribute to the legacy of poet and thinker Langston Hughes. A songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, McCalla sets Hughes' poems to her own spare yet profound compositions. She juxtaposes these with arrangements of folk songs from Haiti, the first independent Black nation and the homeland of her parents, tapping into the nuances of Black experience. McCalla's music elegantly weaves Haitian influences together with American folk music, just as Hughes incorporated Black vernacular into his remarkable poetry, and the way the Haitian Kreyòl is a beacon for the survival of African identity through the brutal legacy of colonialism. This is music of reclamation, imbued with a quiet power that grapples with the immense weight of history.

Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes

Music US