
Steven
C. Tracy, Professor
Office Information
Office:
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Room
304 |
New
Africa House |
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Phone: |
413-545-3275 |
413-256-1493 |
Hours: |
TuTh 9:30-10:45
a.m. |
And by appointment |
Current Course Information
Fall 2008:
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AfroAm 243
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Afro-American Folklore
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AfroAm 753
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Afro-American Literature & Culture: The Blues
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AfroAm 701
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Major Works in Afro-American Studies I
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| AfroAm 691D | Major Works in Afro-American Studies III |
Brief Bio
Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American
Studies at UMass Amherst. He is author of Langston Hughes and the Blues (U
of Illinois Press 1988), Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues
in the Queen City (U of Illinois P, 1993), and A Brush with the
Blues (1997). He also served as general co-editor of The Collected
Works of Langston Hughes (U of Missouri P, 2001-2004) and editor of Write
Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (UMass P, 1999), Langston
Hughes: Works for Children and Young Adults (U of Missouri P, 2001), A
Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Oxford UP, 2004), and A Historical
Guide to Ralph Ellison (Oxford UP, 2004). Professor Tracy provided
the introduction for Howard W. Odum's novels Rainbow Round My Shoulder (Indiana
University Press, 2006), Wings On My Feet and Cold Blue Moon (forthcoming
2007). A singer and harmonica player, Steven Tracy has recorded with his
own band, various blues singers, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; he
has opened for B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and
many others. Professor Tracy has also written CD liner notes for a variety
of labels and produced an LP by Pigmeat Jarrett for June Appal.
Publications
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AFTER WINTER: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown |
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Introduction
by Steven C. Tracy |
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Introduction
by Steven C. Tracy Howard W. Odum, Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (Indiana University Press, 2006) |
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A Historical
Guide to Ralph Ellison (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) |
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A Historical
Guide to Langston Hughes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004) |
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The Collected
Works of Langston Hughes, Vol. 12 Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies (Columbia and London: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2002) |
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Write
Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999) |
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A Brush
with the Blues |
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Going
to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993) |
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Steve Tracy and
the Crawling Kingsnakes CD: Going to Cincinnati 1990 |
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Langston Hughes and
the Blues (Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988) |