letters
to an unknown audience
(further Hurstoniana)
- Hurston typewrote her letters, and she wrote to the dean of Morgan College that she wanted to meet him, because someday the world would need a biographer for him, someone who knew him as a dean, a husband, a father. . .
- She had an acquaintance with John Lomax, brother of Allan Lomax, whose ethnomusicological recordings were used to such fine effect in Moby's Play. This gives me the sound for Tea Cake's "box," which he was always plucking in Their Eyes Were Watching God (was it Tea Cake on that box?).
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I believe Hurston actually accompanied Lomax on some collecting expeditions as part of WPA efforts or some such thing. I grew up very near where Hurston had lived and was surprised that I never learned much about her till I moved away. She was swell.
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