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Acknowledgments The journalist Wallace Terry once commented that every book is born in debt, and this book is no different. There are many people who have contributed in some way or another to its existence. It began as a dissertation at the University of Washington and is first indebted to the faculty of the ethnomusicology department for the teaching assistantships that got me through graduate school. My thanks also to Dr. Johnnella Butler, the UW Office of Minority Affairs, and the Bank of America for providing a much needed dissertation year writing fellowship where early ideas began to take shape. The manuscript was substantially revised during a two-year residency as a Riley Scholar-in-Residence at the Colorado College in Colorado Springs. I would like to thank the school and especially Dean Victor Nelson-Cisneros for his unwavering support over the years. A special thanks and acknowledgment for the inspiration of scholars Portia Maultsby, Mellonee Burnim, Adrienne Seward, Cheryl Keyes, Deborah Wong, and Eileen Hayes, who have all offered encouragement over the years. A thanks to Dr. John Stewart for directing me to the work of Robert Plant Armstrong. A warm acknowledgment to Dan Shanahan and Juraj Hvorecky, brilliant scholars, good friends, brothers in arms; and to Eva Farady, for compiling the index, doing hours of proofreading, and for her selfless devotion to my well being. A final thanks to Joan Catapano, Jennifer Clark, Daniel Nasset, Matthew Smith, Kathleen Kornell, Maria denBoer, and others at the University of Illinois Press who took the book upon their shoulders and saw it through. ...

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