Steven C. Tracy is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature and Langston Hughes and the Blues, and editor of Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance.

“The only man who could write a book about the Cincinnati blues field.”—Albert Washington

Steven C. Tracy is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature and Langston Hughes and the Blues, and editor of Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance.

“The only man who could write a book about the Cincinnati blues field.”—Albert Washington

Steven C. Tracy is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature and Langston Hughes and the Blues, and editor of Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance.

“The only man who could write a book about the Cincinnati blues field.”—Albert Washington