What jazz influence is displayed in the following lines from Langston Hughes's poem "Deferred"? I want to pass the civil service. I want a television set. You know, as old as I am, I ain't never owned a decent radio yet? I'd like to take up Bach.
Call and response, which is deeply ingrained in African-American musical traditions, is displayed by having a succession of two distinct phrases wherein the second phrase makes a direct comment on, or responds to the first.
