Tracy lines up book projects for sabbatical
Afro-American Studies professor Steve Tracy will be working on three book projects while on sabbatical next semester.
He recently agreed to edit a 500-page volume on roots music for Ashgate (UK) Publishers Library of Popular Music. The work will include articles on blues, country, bluegrass, zydeco and various other types of roots music selected by Tracy, who will also provide an extensive introduction for the volume.
He also plans to work on a book about the blues and American literature for Oxford University Press and “Chicago Bound: Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance” for University of Illinois Press.
Next spring two pieces he wrote dealing with August Wilson will be published in a volume on Wilson for the University of Iowa Press. Oxford University Press will also be releasing Tracy’s edition of Roark Bradford's “John Henry” novel and play in paperback next spring.
October 16, 2009.
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