Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues

Contributors

Contributors GERHARD KUBIK is a professor at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Klagenfurt and the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna. Since 1959 he has conducted fieldwork in sixteen countries of sub-Saharan Africa and in Brazil and the United States. His more than three hundred publications include books, articles, and recordings of African music and oral traditions and related material from the New World. His work has resulted in many fellowships, awards, and guest lectures. In 1999 he published the book Africa and the Blues. DOUG SEROFF AND LYNN ABBOTT are independent researcher-writer-historians. Seroff lives near Nashville, Tennessee; Abbott, in New Orleans. Their individual and collaborative articles have appeared in American Music, JEMF Quarterly, 78 Quarterly, and elsewhere.They have also coauthored two books: Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 (2003) and Ragged but Right: BlackTraveling Shows,“Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (2007). ELLIOTT S. HURWITT was educated at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague (Netherlands), and at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His doctoral dissertation,“W. C. Handy as MusicPublisher:CareerandReputation”(CUNY,2000),wontheBarryBrook Dissertation Award. Professor Hurwitt has written nearly fifty entries for recent reference works,including the International Dictionary of Black Composers , American National Biography, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, 400 . CONTRIBUTORS Encyclopedia of New York State, the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues, and AfricanAmericanNationalBiography.HehastaughtatVassarCollege,Columbia University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College, and Fordham University. ANDREW M. COHEN divides his time between organizing and participating in folk musical events in and around Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives, and playing a variety of gigs far from home. He has studied with and served as “lead boy” for a number of blind musicians, including Jim Brewer, Dan Smith, Daniel K. Womack, and (briefly) Reverend Gary Davis. He has recently recorded for the Riverlark andWepecket labels and written occasional pieces for such magazines as Sing Out! and Old Time Herald. DAVID EVANS is First Tennessee Professor of Music at The University of Memphis .He has been involved in blues research since the 1960s and is the author of Tommy Johnson (1971), a biography of a traditional blues singer, Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues (1982), and The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Blues (2005),as well as many scholarly articles,book chapters ,encyclopedia entries,and record album notes on blues and related types of music. He is the producer of many albums of field and studio recordings of blues. In 2003 he received a Grammy™ Award for Best Album Notes for his essay in Screamin’ and Hollerin’ the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton. He has performed blues in twenty countries and recorded three CDs as well as accompaniments to other artists. LUIGI MONGE is a freelance teacher and translator in Genoa, Italy. He is a member of SIdMA (Italian Society of African American Musicology) and a blues and gospel lecturer in Italy and abroad. In Italian, he writes for the magazine Il Blues and for World Music Magazine. In English, he has published articles in Black Music Research Journal, Journal of Texas Music History , Popular Music,and in the books The Lyrics in African American Popular Music and Nobody KnowsWhere the Blues Come From, both edited by Robert Springer. He has contributed entries to The Encyclopedia of the Blues and the Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, both published by Routledge. JAMES BENNIGHOF is a professor of music theory and vice provost at Baylor University. His scholarly work, much of which focuses on the critical analysis of twentieth-century American vernacular music, has appeared in his book The Words and Music of Paul Simon (2007) and in the Journal of Music Theory, the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy,American Music, College Music CONTRIBUTORS . 401 Symposium, and the International Dictionary of Black Composers. Several of his choral works, mostly for treble choir, have been published by Oxford University Press and Heritage Music Press. KATHARINE (KATCHIE) CARTWRIGHT is an assistant professor of music at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas. She has received Fulbright grants for residencies in Greece and Lebanon and has performed and conducted workshops in South Asia, West Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Her recent recordings as a singer and flutist include A Mumbai of the Mind: Ferlinghetti Improvisations...