Folk Music and Modern Sound

Contributors

Contributors Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) is a writer, playwright, poet and music critic. Among his works are Black Music and Blues People: Negro Music in White America. Doris J. Dyen, an ethnomusicologist, is editor and writer at the Florida Folklife Program. She is coauthor of the article on North American folk music in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and an editor of the recently published Resources of American Music History. Dena J. Epstein is assistant music librarian at the University of Chicago and the author of Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War and Music Publishingin Chicago Before the Fire. David Evans, the author of Tommy Johnson and Big Road Blues, is associate professor of music and director of regional studies in ethnomusicology at Memphis State University. William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi, is the author of Blues from the Delta. Kenneth S. Goldstein is professor of folklore and folklife at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Guide for Field Workers in Folklore and Two Penny Ballads and Four Dollar Whiskey. 202 Contributors 203 Anthony Heilbut, music historian and record producer, has written The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times and has received both the Grand Prix du Disque and the Grammy award. His study of artistic and intellectual emigres from Hitler will be published later this year by Viking Press. William Ivey, is director of the Country Music Foundation, Nashville, Tennessee, as well as a trustee of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Charles Keil, associate professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the author of Urban Blues and Tiv Song. A. L. Lloyd, music critic and historian, serves on the European Permanent Commission for the Study of Industrial Folklore and on the International Folk Music Council. Among his contributions to the study of folk music are Folk Song in England and Folk Songs of the Americas. Bill C. Malone is associate professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of Country Music U.S.A. and Southern Music/American Music. The coeditor of Stars of Country Music, he recently edited the recorded anthology The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music. Robert Palmer is music critic for the New York Times and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. He has published Baby, That Was Rock and Roll; A Tale of Two Cities: Memphis Rock and New Orleans Roll and, most recently, Deep Blues. Vivian Perlis lectures in American Studies and is research associate in the School of Music at Yale University. The director of the American MusicOral History Project, she is the author of Charles lues Remembered. Mark Slobin is associate professor of music at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He is the author of Kirgiz Instrumental Music and Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan and of two forthcoming works, Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immi- 204 Contributors grant (University of Illinois Press) and Old Jewish Folk Songs and Fiddle Tunes: The Writings and Collections of Moshe Beregovski (University of Pennsylvania Press). Richard Spottswood edited the Ethnic Musical Heritage Series for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and is the author of Ethnic Music on Records, 1895-1942. Charles K. Wolfe is associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He has edited Alton Delmore's autobiography Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity and, in addition, is the author of Grand Ole Opry: The Early Years; Riley Puckett; and Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee. ...