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Eileen Southern is Professor Emerita of Music and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author or editor of several books on African-American music, including The Music of Black Americans: A History,Readings in Black American Music, and BiographicalDictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. She lives in Queens, NY.
Josephine Wright is Professor of Music and Black Studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is coeditor (with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.) of NewPerspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of EileenSouthern, and coauthor (with Eileen Southern) of African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, andDance: 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography. She lives in Wooster, OH.