Going to Cincinnati

A History of the Blues in the Queen City
Author: Steven C. Tracy
The classic study of a blues scene
Paper – $32
978-0-252-08923-7
eBook – $19.95
978-0-252-04873-9
Publication Date
Paperback: 12/30/2025
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About the Book

Available again in paperback, Going to Cincinnati takes readers into the Queen City’s long-overlooked blues scene. Steven C. Tracy’s award-winning book blends history and analysis with full biographical sketches of bluesmen like Albert Washington, H-Bomb Ferguson, Big Joe Duskin, Pigmeat Jarrett. The result is a celebrated, one-of-a-kind portrait of a scene filled with unique and talented musicians and essential to understanding American blues.

About the Author

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.