Langston Hughes and the Blues

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

"A close and unsentimental look at this rich and enduring form and a deep and continuing questioning of its possibilities for more formal expression."--John McCluskey Jr., American Literature "Steven Tracy knows very well both the blues and Langston Hughes's poetry. His study leaves us with a far better understanding of the role of Black music, and the blues in particular, as the central influence on the most original of Black American poets."--Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes "Classic."--Tony Bolden, author of Groove Theory: The Blues Foundation of Funk