Tambourines to Glory | Another Revealing Facet of the Harlem Scene
In the following review, Parker follows Hughes’s representation of the black gospel tradition in Tambourines to Glory, noting the way the characters succeed by commercializing religion.
Since the publication of The Weary Blues, poetic account of the enchantment, romance, and tragedy that was Harlem’s back in the Twenties, Langston Hughes has maintained a healthy nostalgia for the Harlem scene, not only because it marks the point of his departure as a man of letters, but likewise because it remains a city within a city, a widely-discussed experiment in large-scale living in the urban ghetto. The impact of the Black Metropolis both as a place and a symbol is illuminated by such Hughes publications as Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Montage of a Dream...
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