Steven C. Tracy

Auteur de Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader

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Steven C. Tracy is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Chu Tian Scholar at Central China Normal University and is the author of Langston Hughes and the Blues and Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City.

Œuvres de Steven C. Tracy

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Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (1999) 20 exemplaires

Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Great Cincinnati Bicentennial) (1993) 16 exemplaires

A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Historical Guides to American Authors) (2003) 14 exemplaires

A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (Historical Guides to American Authors) (2004) 12 exemplaires

Langston Hughes and the Blues (1988) 9 exemplaires

Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance (2011) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires

Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature (2015) 3 exemplaires

A Brush with the Blues: 26 Portraits (1997) 1 exemplaire

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Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the… par Steven C. Tracy

This is a very valuable addition to blues literature. I grew up in Cincinnati, and had no idea the city had a blues tradition. This may say more about me (specifically me as a young 'un) than it does about anything else. Also, I didn't start really digging the blues until my mid 20s.

Still, there *was* (even is) an important blues scene in Cincinnati, OH and Steve Tracy does his homework and tells you all about it. The city is perhaps better known for its bluegrass -- Cincinnati being a kind of Appalachian mecca -- but there are some really interesting blues figures: the Document Records CD "Rare Country Blues Vol 3 1928 – 1936" has tracks by many of these artists, if you can find it.… (plus d'informations)

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tungsten_peerts | Apr 20, 2022 |

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