Notes on Contributors

Kofi Agawu is Professor of Music at Princeton University in New Jersey.

Daniel K. Avorgbedor is a professor in the School of Music and the African-American and African Studies Department at The Ohio State University.

John Chernoff is a scholar of music who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Scott DeVeaux, who teaches at the University of Virginia, has written on bebop and is series editor for the Oxford University Press Readers on American Musicians.

Akin Euba is a composer who is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.

Luke Eyoh specializes in and teaches literary stylistics and African poetry at the University of Uyo, Nigeria.

Bruce King writes about music as well as about Commonwealth literature.

Joseph McLaren teaches Black literature at Hofstra University.

Lupenga Mphande is a professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University.

Carol Muller is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), specializing in ethnomusicology.

Nick Nesbitt is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Meki Nzewi is a professor in the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Tanure Ojaide is Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Tejumola Olaniyan is in the English Department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Bode Omojola was recently a Humboldt Research Fellow in Music at the University of Cologne in Germany and is a professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Ilorin

Patricia Tang is completing her dissertation in the Department of Music at Princeton University.

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