Broadcasting Dialect: Sterling Brown, Norman Corwin, and Latent Remediation.

In 1939, the radio-dramatist Norman Corwin broadcast two poems by Sterling Brown on a special episode of CBS's Words Without Music dedicated to "Negro poetry." The circumstances of Corwin's radio adaptation reveal a specific dimension of Brown's achievement as a poet of black dialect that is difficu...

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Published in:	Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 111 - 132
Main Author:	Kilbane, Matthew
Format:	Article
Published:	Indiana University Press Fall2019
Subjects:	Corwin, Norman, 1910-2011 Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-1989 Mass media Radio adaptations Poetry (Literary form)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost