Langston Hughes’ ”The Weary Blues” focuses on a musician in upper Manhattan. The musical instrument of the whites is taken over by a black, for, music is universal. His rendering of the music is termed as ’droning’. The term ’droning’ may refer to the fact how he labouredly delivered music for a living. Since drones thrive in communities, the music may signify the collective consciousness of the blacks. This is why probably the music is ‘syncopated’.’ Syncopated’ means stressing a normally weak beat. The aspect of the blacks-the Harlem Renaissance is foregrounded with the stressing of this weak beat .The musician oscillated to the music that mellowed to a sentimental humming(croon).

The poet has penned the phrase ‘”down on Lenox Avenue” instead on “up on Lenox Avenue” as blacks inhabited the Northern part of Harlem. The word “down” may also signify the architecture of Harlem colonies, with the multi-storied apartments looking down on the avenues, as people resided in the upper floors of the buildings. The lower apartments were reserved for business purposes. The African Americans were responsible for the birth of the jazz and blues music that was born out of “irresistible impulse of blacks to create boldly expressive art of a high quality as a primary response to their social conditions, as an affirmation of their dignity and humanity in the face of poverty and racism” (Norton Anthology of African American Literature 929).…