Allen Hughes (28 December 1921 – 16 November 2009) was an Americandance andmusic critic.^[1]

Born inBrownsburg, Indiana, Hughes started his career as a critic in 1950 when he joined the staff ofMusical America. In 1955, he became a music critic forThe New York Herald Tribune. He left there in 1960 to join the staff ofThe New York Times where he worked as a music and dance critic until his retirement 26 years later in 1986. He was notably chief dance critic of the newspaper from 1963 to 1965 and was chief music editor of the Sunday Arts and Leisure section during the early 1980s. He died inSarasota, Florida at the age of 87.^[2]

• 1921 births
• 2009 deaths
• American music critics
• American dance critics
• American male journalists
• 20th-century American journalists
• The New York Times journalists
• People from Brownsburg, Indiana

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