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ABRIDGED VITAE OF PORTIA K. MAULTSBY Personal Data Home address: Business address: 537 Plymouth Road Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Bloomington, Indiana 47408 504 N. Fess St. (812) 333-2544 Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405

(8l2) 855-2708 FAX: (812) 855-4008 Internet: maultsby@indiana.edu

School/Department/Program Affiliations School of Music, American Studies, and African Studies Education University of Wisconsin 1974 Ph.D. Ethnomusicology Madison, Wisconsin (African and African-American Music

Minor Field: African-American Studies) University of Wisconsin 1969 M.M. (Musicology) Madison, Wisconsin Mount St. Scholastica 1968 B.M. (Piano, Theory/Composition) College, Atchison, KS Mozarteum--Salzburg Summer 1967 Studied piano, music history and University of Salzburg German Salzburg, Austria Dissertation "Afro-American Religious Music: 1619-1861. Part II-- Historical Development; Part II--Computer Analysis of One-Hundred Spirituals," (1974).

Comment [COMMENT1]: This vitae does not contain amount of grants. REVISED 1/97. This is an abridged version. Contains beginning sections publ. conference papers and invited lectures beginning with 1985.

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Academic Experiences---Teaching/Administrative Indiana University, Bloomington, IN: 1992 Professor 1991-present. Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture

1985-91 Departmental Chair, Afro-American Studies 1981-84 Associate Chair, Afro-American Studies 1981 Associate Professor 1975 Assistant Professor 1971-1974 Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor Visiting Professorship/Scholar/Fellow: 1999-2000 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA Spring 1998 Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Musicology Department

Belle van Zuylen Professor of African American Music Spring 1994 Colorado College, Music Department Visiting Professor 1984-1985 Senior Visiting Scholar, Museum of American History

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Summer 1983 Seattle Pacific University, Music Department Visiting Professor Fall 1982 Swarthmore College, Music Department Visiting Professor

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Courses Taught Black Music in America Popular Music of Black America Art Music of Black Composers Black Religious Music Hip-Hop Music and Culture Theoretical Issues in African-American Music Soul Music: Culture & Performance (Ensemble) Black Music of Two Worlds--team taught History of Ideas (Ethnomusicology)--team taught Seminar in Ethnomusicology--team taught Black American Music in the Netherlands Theorizing Hip-Hop Music and Culture Ethnomusicology and the Public Sector I & II Grants/Fellowships IU College of Arts and Sciences and Teaching Learning Technologies Lab grants to complete an instructional web site, “Hip-Hop Music and Culture” $20,000 and $2,500 respectively, 2001 IU Ameritech Grant: “Multicultural Multimedia on the Web: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop, the Music and Culture of Black America” (three instructional websites), $15,000, July 1, 2000-December 2001 Office of International Programs, Overseas Conference Fund for travel to The Netherlands, Summer 1999. $300,000 Departmental Grant (secured as departmental chair) from the Ford Foundation, 1990. Research Grant from the President's Council on International Programs (Indiana University in support of presentations made in the USSR, Summer 1988. Research Grant awarded by Ford Foundation/National Research Council and matched by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of Research and Graduate Development-Indiana University, 1985-1986. Ford Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the National Research Council, 1984-1985. Indiana Committee for the Humanities-Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 1984. Grant-in-Aid for Research--Indiana University, 1983-1984. Course Development Grant--Learning Resources, Indiana University, 1981-82. International Travel-Overseas Conference Fund for travel to Oxford, England--Indiana University, Summer 1981.

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Distinctions and Awards Teaching Excellence Faculty Award—Indiana University, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2003. Teaching Excellence Faculty Award –Indiana University, Department of Afro-American Studies,1997 One of forty-two Ford Foundation Fellows selected to be profiled in Excellence Through Diversity, published by the National Research Council, 1996. Chosen for inclusion in Facts on File on American Black Women (12 volume series). Darlene Clark Hine, General Editor (New York: Carlson Publishing, forthcoming). This resource book contains essays on prominent African American women in various academic fields and professions. Profiled in Rolling Stone, September 17, 1992. One of eight American performers/scholars selected to participate in a workshop/conference on "African American Sacred Music," in Havana, Cuba sponsored by the National Choir of Cuba and the Ecumenical Council of Cuba (1990). Profiled in the Black History Month Calendar developed, published and distributed nationally by Tanqueray (1989). One of six American ethnomusicologists selected to participate in an American-Soviet research conference in the USSR. Sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board (1988). Listed in: International Who's Who in Music, Cambridge, England: I.W.W.M. (1987). Faculty Excellence Awarded for Outstanding Accomplishments - Indiana University Black Student Union (1986). Awarded Honorary Doctor of Music degree, Benedictine College, Kansas (1985). Listed in: Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (1982). Listed in: Minority American Women: A Biographical Directory. New York: Neal-Schuman (1981).

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Professional Activities Membership in Professional Organizations The International Association for the Study of Popular Music: Executive Board Member (U.S.A. Branch),1987-2005; Editorial Board (International Body), 1989-present (U.S.A. Branch). Society for Ethnomusicology: Council Chairperson, 1982-84; Board of Directors, Member-at-Large 1978-80; Council Member, 1973-76, 1977-80, l988-1991; Program Committee, 1971, 1976, and 1984; Session Chairperson, 1971, 1977, 1984; Local Arrangements, 1981, 1984, 1998 Program Committee, 1995-96; Development Committee, 2002-present. Indiana Music Educators Association: Board of Directors, 1993-1995. The College Music Society - Member of the Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Profession, 1989-92. The American Music Society Association of African American Museums Field Research “Black American Music in the Netherlands” conducted in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Zwolle, Rotterdam, Hengelo, Soest, Oranjelaan, Papendrecht. Spring/Summer 1998 and Summer 1999, Spring 2001 (two weeks) “Dayton Street Funk” conducted in Dayton, Ohio, Summer 1997 The Music Industry” conducted in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, and Orlando in the music industry. 1982-83 and 1984-85. "The Relationship Between West African and U.S. Black Music;" "West African Club Music (Ju Ju)" conducted in Nigeria and Ghana, West Africa, Summer 1977. Publications: Books Co-editor [with Mellonee Burnim]. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Routledge Press (2005). Sub-editor [with contributions by Mellonee Burnim], African-American section (12 articles).

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, United States and Canada, Vol. 3. Vol. General Editor. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 571-715.

Articles/Monographs/Book Chapters [with Isaac Kalumbu] “Popular Music Studies: African-American Studies” in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol 1. Media, Industry and Society. Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing, Paul Oliver, and Peter Wicke (New York: Continuum, 2003), 47-54. “Has Gospel Music Become Pop Music, or What Shall We Call Take 6?” in Views on Black American Music: Such Sweet Thunder (Proceedings from conferences on Black music held at the University of Massachusetts 1989-1999). Ed. Mark Baszak (The Fine Arts Center: University of Massachusetts Amerst, 2003), 26-31. "The Search for African-American Musical Resources in the United States" in The Harvard Guide to African-American History. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor-in-chief; Darlene Clark Hine, and Leon Litwack, general editors (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2001), 139-166.

“Funk Music: An Expression of Black Life in Dayton, Ohio and the American Metropolis” in The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration. Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, and Tity De Vries, eds. (Amsterdam: Vu University Press, 2001), 198-213. [with Mellonee Burnim]. "Overview: [Intellectual History of African American Music]" in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 3. United States and Canada Music. General Ed. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 572-591. “Rhythm & Blues and Soul" in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.” Vol. 3 United States and Canada Music. General Ed. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 667-679. Reprinted in Ellen Koskoff, ed. Musical Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. (New York: Routledge, 2005), 228-239. "Funk" in The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.” Vol. 3. United States and Canada. General Ed. Ellen Koskoff (New York: Garland Publishing, 2001), 680-686. Reprinted in Ellen Koskoff, ed. Musical Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. (New York: Routledge, 2005), 75-81. “African-American Music” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Rev. ed. Vol 2 (London: Macmillian Publishers 2000), 109-114. "Music in African-American Culture" in African-Americans and the Media: Contemporary Issues. Venice Berry and Carmen Manning-Miller, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, Inc., 1996), 241-262. "Intra- and International Identities in American Popular Music" in Trading Culture: GATT, European Cultural Policies and the Transatlantic Market. Annemoon van Hemel, Hans Mommaas,

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and Cas Smithuijsen, eds. (Amsterdam: Boekman Foundation, 1996), 148-156. "Music", The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Vol. 4. Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996), 1888-1907. "The Evolution of African American Music" (a chart that illustrates the evolution of African American music from its African origins to present) c1988 and revised 1990 and 1995 in: African American Review (literary journal -- special issue on music) Vol. 29 No. 2, (summer 1995), p. 183-84; included as part the permanent exhibit "After the Revolution: Everyday Life in America, 1780-1800" in the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (1991) and as part of the permanent exhibit, "From Victory to Freedom: Afro-American Life in the Fifties" in the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH, (1989); published in Nieuwsbrief IASPM-Benelux [Newsletter of the Dutch Branch of the International Association of Popular Music] (October 1994); in music industry magazines, Urban Network (June 14, 1994), Hits (June 22, 1992; June 21, 1993; June 27, 1994), Ebony Man (July 1991), p.42-43, and in program booklet for the 1st International Conference on Rock 'n' Rap sponsored by University of Missouri School of Journalism (February, 1993). "Ethnicity and African American Popular Music," Bulgarian Musicology XVIII No. 1 (1994), 50-58. "Music in the African American Church" in Encyclopedia of African American Religions. Larry G. Murphy, J. Gordon Melton and Gary L. Ward, eds. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993), 520-26. Revised version of "Jahrbuch fur Liturgik..." (1983). "The Influence of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry" in We'll Understand It Better By and By: African American Pioneering Gospel Composers. Bernice Johnson Reagon, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 19-33. Reprinted in Signifyin’(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture. Gena Dagel Caponi ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, 172-190. "Africanisms in African American Music" in Africanisms in Afro-American Culture. Joseph Holloway, ed. (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 185-210. Reprinted in Jacob U. Gordon, ed. The African Presence in Black America (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2004), p. 39-83; Delores P. Aleridge and Carlene Young ed., Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies (New York: Lexington Books, 2000), 379-405; Floyd W. Hayes, ed. A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African-American Studies. (Del Mar, CA: Collegiate Press, 1992), 269-290; and Jacob U. Gordon, ed. The African Presence in Black America (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2004), p. 39-83. "Black Music Scholarship and the Approaching New Century," Black Music Research Bulletin (Spring 1989), 10-11. [with Mellonee Burnim] "From Backwoods to City Streets: The Afro-American Musical Journey,"

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in Expressively Black. Geneva Gay and Willie Baber, eds. (New York: Praeger Press, 1987), 109-136. Rhythm & Blues (1945-1955): A Survey of Styles," Black American Popular Music (monograph). Niani Kilkenny and Robert Selim, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Program in Black American Culture--Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,1986), 6-19, 22-23. This monograph provided content for a radio program, "Rhythm & Blues: Straight From the Heart," produced by David Rector for National Public Radio's Horizons Series. "West African Influences and Retentions in U.S. Black Music: A Socio-Cultural Study," in More than Dancing. Ed. Irene Jackson-Brown (New York: Greenwood Press, 1985), 25-55. A revised version of "Influences and Retentions of West African Musical Concepts in U.S. Black Music" published in 1979. "The Role of Scholars in Creating Space and Validity for On- Going Changes in Black American Culture," in Black American Culture and Scholarship: Contemporary Issues. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1985), 9-23. "Funktion und Darbietung von Kirchenliedern, Spirituals und Gospels in der Schwarzen Kirche," Jahrbuch fur Liturgik und Hymnologie Ubersetzet von Eva Janke; Herausgegeben von Konrad Ameln, et. al, 27. Band 1983 (Germany: Gesamtherstel-lung Barenreiter Kassel, 1984), pp. 192-207. Reprinted in English, "The Use and Performance of Hymnody, Spirituals and Gospels in the Black Church," The Western Journal of Black Studies, VII Fall 1983), pp. 161-171; The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center XIV (Fall l986/Spring l987), pp. l4l-l59; and Readings in African American Church Music and Worship James Abbington ed. (Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2001), 77-98. Revised version published in The Hymnology Annual: An International Forum on the Hymn and Worship II (Spring 1992), 11-26. "Soul Music: Its Sociological and Political Significance in American Popular Culture," Journal of Popular Culture, XVII (Fall 1983), pp. 51-60. Reprinted in The Age of Rock. Ed. Timothy E. Scheurer (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989), 168-178. "The Origin of Black Spirituals: A Summary and Analysis of Theories," Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Hymnologie, Bulletin, II (Mei 1983), 118-124. "Influences of the Roberta Martin Era on Popular Styles of Black Music," in Roberta Martin and the Roberta Martin Singers: The Legacy and the Music. Bernice Johnson Reagon and Linn Shapiro, eds. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1982), 42-45. "Africanisms Retained in the Spiritual Tradition," in Report of The Twelfth Congress-International Musicological Society (Germany: Barenreite, 1981), 75-8. Afro-American Religious Music: A Study in Musical Diversity. Papers of the Hymn Society of America, No. XXXV (Springfield, Ohio: The Hymn Society of America, 1981). Monograph.

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"Contemporary Pop: A Healthy Diversity Evolves from Creative Freedom," Billboard International Music Magazine: Special Issue on Black Music (June 9, 1979), BM10, 22, 28. "Influences and Retentions of West African Musical Concepts in U.S. Black Music," The Western Journal of Black Studies, III (Fall 1979), 197-215. "Black Spirituals: An Analysis of Textual Forms," The Black Perspective in Music, IV (Spring 1976), 54-69. "Music of Northern Independent Black Churches During the Ante-Bellum Period," Ethnomusicology, XIX (September 1975), 421-449. "Selective Bibliography: U.S. Black Music," Ethnomusicology, XIX (September 1975), 421-449. Other Research Publications Contributed to the bibliography on African-American music included in Popular Music Studies: A Select International Bibliography. Compiled and edited by John Shepherd, David Horn, et.al. London: Cassell Academic, 1997. "Breaking Down Barriers: The Evolution of the Black Music Industry" featured essay in Gallery of Greats (Black History Month Calendar) Milwaukee: Miller Brewing Company, 1994. "The Crisis Interview [with Portia Maultsby on Black Music]" Crisis (February 1991) pp. 38-41. Teaching-Related Publications “A Conversation with Portia Maultsby,” Folklore Forum 34:1/2, (2003). Special Issue on Applied Folklore and Ethnomusicology Instructional Website on Hip-Hop Music and Culture. Indiana University, 2001. Restricted to students enrolled in the class through Indiana University. "The African American Blues Tradition" (curriculum guide) in The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Southeast Institute for Education in the Arts : 1993 Renewal Institute. Chattanooga: University of Tennessee, 1993), 1-47. "African American Music: African Origins" in The Blues Project 1993 (Largo, MD: Humanities Resource Center, Prince George's Community College, 1993), 9-11. Reprinted in Maryland Humanities (February 1994), 6-8 and in The Engaging Reader. 3rd ed. Anne Mills King ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996. "The Evolution of African American Music: Part I" in News (January 1993), 6-7; Part II (July

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1993), 6-7; Part III (January 1994, p. 5,8); Part IV (October 1994, p. 1,7); Part V (January 1995, p. 2-3); Part VI (July 1995), p. 2-3; Part VII (October 1996), 4,7. Newsletter published by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation housed in Smithsonian Institution. "Toward a Multicultural Music Education Curriculum" in Toward the End of the Century: Cross-Cultural and Minority Perspectives. Nohema Fernandez, ed. (Missoula, MT: College Music Society, 1992), p. 67-72. Reprinted in Indiana Musicator [organ of the Indiana Music Educators Association] (May 1993), 24-28. Revised version of a paper delivered as the keynote address at the Florida Music Educators Association 43rd annual Clinic-Conference, January 1987. "Black Music in America," course syllabus in Ethnic Studies. Gary T. Okihiro, ed. (New York: Markus Winer Publishing, 1989), 178-82. Works in Progress From the Margins to the Mainstream: Black Popular Music, 1945-1999 [with Lutgard Mutsaers, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands]. Black American Music in the Netherlands Instructional Websites Completed Hip-Hop Music and Culture Instructional Websites in Progress (Under Revision) Survey of African-American Music African-American Popular Music Published Reviews Book Review, Folk Music and Modern Sound. William Ferris and Mary Hart, eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, in International Council for Traditional Music, (Spring 1985), pp. 213-16. Record Review, Jubilee to Gospel: A Selection of Commercially Recorded Black Religious Music, 1921-1953. Selected and annotated by William H. Tallmadge, with Biographical notes and related discography compiled by Doug Sernoff, in Ethnomusicology, XXVII (January 1983), pp. 162-164. Book Review, (two hymnals), Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Collection of Afro-American Spirituals and Other Songs (New York: The Church Hymnal Corporation, 1981); Songs of Zion: Supplemental Worship Resources 12 (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981); in The Hymn, XXXIII (July

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1982), pp. 193-196. Book Review, Afro-American Religious Music: A Bibliography and a Catalogue of Gospel Music. Compiled by Irene V. Jackson. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979), in Ethnomusicology, XXV (January 1981), pp. 147-148. Book Review, Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War by Dena Epstein. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977), in The Black Perspective in Music, VII (Spring 1980), pp. 127-128. Record Review, Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966. Smithsonian Institution, Program in Black American Culture, in Voices in Black Studies (March/April 1980), p. 3. Record Review, John's Island, South Carolina: Its People and Songs. Recorded by Henrietta Yurchenco, in Ethnomusicology,XVIII(January1974),pp.181-183. Creative Activity Video/Film/Radio & Radio Documentaries 1994-1996. Researcher and consulting scholar for Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was (13-part series on Black radio). Series Producer: Jacquie Webb for Radio Smithsonian. I assisted in developing the proposal for the series; provided research materials; defined content for six shows; reviewed scripts for each show; and served as an interviewee for the series.

Black Radio won two gold medal awards for the best "History Series" and "Narration Series" in the 1996 New York Festivals International Radio Competition (1,398 entries from 31 countries); the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton (627 entries); the George Foster Peabody Award (1,000 entries); and the 17th Annual National Education Association Award for the Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting. 1994-1996. On camera and consulting scholar for documentary, Chicago's Record Row: The Cradle of Rhythm & Blues for WTTW-TV (Chicago). Michael McAlpin, Producer. I provided research materials and assisted in designing the conceptual framework and defining content; compiled a demo tape of music; reviewed four versions of the script, and two rough cuts of the production.

Chicago's Record Row won the IRIS award from the National Association of Television

Programmers and Executives. Currently it is being considered for other awards. 1994-95. Music researcher/consulting scholar for The Motown Sound, a video documentary on Motown Record Company for the Henry Ford and Motown Museums, produced by Donna Lawrence Productions. I provided research materials, designed the conceptual framework and defined content; reviewed various rough cuts; and assisted in selecting the music.

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1991-94. Researcher and consulting scholar for Wade in the Water (26-part series on Black gospel music). Conceived and hosted by Bernice Johnson Reagon and produced by Judi Moore Latta and Sonja Williams for National Public Radio in collaboration with Smithsonian Institution. I assisted in designing the conceptual framework and defining content for each program; provided research materials and musical examples; and served as an interviewee for the series. The series has won several national awards. 1989-1990. Music researcher/consulting scholar [with Lillian Dunlap] for Eyes on the Prize II, an eight-part Black history documentary, produced by Blackside Productions (Boston) for PBS (first aired Jan.-March, 1990). I identified scenes for music placement, selected, edited music, identified music used in archival footage, and researched copyright documentation for six shows. The series has won many national and international awards. 1987-88. Consulting scholar/co-producer for Music as Metaphor, a 27 minute multi-media documentary on Black music (1945-65) produced with Donna Lawrence Productions (Louisville, KY) for the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (Wilberforce, Ohio)/Ohio Historical Society. The documentary accompanies the exhibit "From Victory To Freedom: Afro-American Life from 1945-1965," on permanent display in The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center. For this project, I designed the conceptual framework and defined content; directed the research; identified on-camera interviewees; selected music; edited various versions of the script; and co-edited the final version of the show. Music as Metaphor is presented every half hour in the theater located in the center of the museum.

Music as Metaphor won the Paul Robeson Award in Newark Black Film Festival competition (75 entries); the Cindy Award from the Association of Visual Communicators (68 entries of which 20 were screened); and Silver awards in both the International Film and T.V. Festival of New York (6,800 entries) and the Association of Multi-Image International Festival competitions (400 entries) where it also was recognized with a Merit Award for excellence in soundtrack production. 1988. Advisor for That Rhythm & Those Blues, a 60 minute documentary on Rhythm & Blues of the 1950s, produced by George Nierenburg (D & B Pictures, N.Y.) for PBS. As advisor for the film, I assisted in designing the conceptual framework and defining content, identifying interviewees, and editing a version of the film.

That Rhythm & Those Blues, won a gold award in the Chicago International Film Festival and was selected as the feature film for the Montreal, Aspen and Denver international among other film festivals. The film also has been shown in commercial theaters across the country. Musical Performance 1971-1981. Founding Director for the Indiana University Soul Revue, a 43-member touring ensemble specializing in the performance of black popular music. I served as the group's primary songwriter, arranger and producer of commercial recordings. One recording, "Music is Just a Party," was selected by Billboard in 1977 as a "Top Single Pick" in its "First Time Around

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Category." Museum Programs & Exhibitions Researcher, Curator, Designer, and Consulting Scholar 2002-2003. Consulting scholar for the music component of the exhibition for the National Constitution Center (Washington, DC) produced by Donna Lawrence Productions. I reviewed the treatment and assisted in identifying musical genres for inclusion. 1997-1998. Co-Curator for exhibition, “Something in the Water: The Sweet Flavor of Dayton Street Funk” for The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH. I conducted research, developed the outline for the exhibition, and wrote the essay for the catalogue. 1991-92. Music researcher/programmer [with Mark Slobin] for exhibition, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, mounted by the Jewish Museum of New York. The exhibition traveled to seven major cities from 1992-1994. 1984-1985. "Black American Popular Music: Rhythm & Blues 1945-1955" Symposium-Performance and Photographic Exhibit, Program In African American Culture, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Symposium held February, 1986 and the subject of a featured article in The New York Times (Feb. 2, l986, p. 52). Exhibit Opened February, 1986 in Washington and toured the U.S. from 1987-1990. Conference Papers “Marginalizing and Mainstreaming Black Popular Music: An Interpretation of Marketing Labels,” Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia (November 2005). “The Motown Sound: Strategizing Cultural Production,” Society for American Music conference Eugene, Oregon (February 2005). “The Intersection of Regional Boundaries in the Creation of the Motown Sound” for An International Conference of the Institute for North-American Studies: “Crossing Cultures: Travel and the Frontiers of North-American Identity, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, May 2003 Keynote Speaker, “New Mix for an Old Song: Current Music Industry Issues,” Conference on the Memphis Sound” sponsored by the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, April 2003 “The Conundrum of Blackness in the Motown Sound” for Experience Music Project Pop Conference, Seattle Washington, April 10-13, 2003 “The Conundrum of Blackness in the ‘Motown Sound,’” Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, CO, October 2002.

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“Is it African-American, American or Transnational: Black Music in and Beyond the Academy,” Conference of the Association for African American Literature and Culture, Salt Lake City, UT, October 2000. “Funk Music: Its Crystalization in the Industrial City of Dayton and Its Revival in Post-Industrial America via Hip-Hop. Keynote address for the Netherlands American Association, Middelburg, The Netherlands, June 1999. “Issues of Contextuality and the Black American Music Aesthetic,” Black American Music in Europe: Past & Present. A joint conference of the University of Utrecht, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Dutch Branch) and the Royal Dutch Society for Musicology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 1998. “African-American Popular Music” for session Historiography and Popular Music Studies, International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference, October 1997. "Rhythm & Blues: Culture, Tradition and Change," Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll Conference, Case Western Reserve University, April 1996. "Black Roots of American Popular Music," Missouri Music Educators Association State Conference, January 1995. "Intra- and Inter-National Identities in American Popular Music," Invited Keynote Address for the GATT: the Arts and Cultural Exchange Between the United States and Europe Conference sponsored by the Boekman Stichting (Study Center for the Arts in the Netherlands), Tilburg University, The Netherlands, October 1994. "A Celebration: The Influence of African American Music on the American Music," Indiana Music Educators Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, January 1994. Guest Clinician. "From Backwoods to City Streets: Rhythm & Blues and the World War II Migration," Association for American Studies Conference, Boston, MA November 1993. "African American Music: A Manifestation of African Cultural Values and Traditions," American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Indianapolis, IN, November 1993. Guest Clinician. "Ethnicity in African American Popular Music," Keynote Address, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Stockton, CA, July 1993. "Rap Music: Social and Cultural Perspectives," National Black Music Caucus Conference, Nashville, TN, March 1993. "Has Gospel Become Pop? The Secular-Sacred Dichotomy," National Conference on the History and Scholarship of Gospel Music, Smithsonian Institution, February 1993.

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"The African American Roots of Rock," Keynote Address for the 1st International Conference on Rock 'n' Rap, Mass Media & Society," University of Missouri's School of Journalism, February 1993. "African American Music: History & Culture of A People," North American Social Studies Conference, Detroit, MI, November 1992. "Black Music Research in the Museum Environment," African American Museums Association, Dayton, OH, September, 1992. "Rhythm & Blues in Los Angeles: Its Impact on the Growth of a Multi-Billion Dollar Record Industry," Society for Ethnomusicology, Oakland, CA, November 1990. "Music As Metaphor: The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1965" with Mellonee Burnim, Lillie Edwards, and Gayle Tate for The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Chicago, October 1990. "Black Music as Culture in the Museum Environment," African American Museums Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 1990. "The State of African-American Musical Scholarship: Past Accomplishments, Current Problems, Directions for the Future," Society for Ethnomusicology, MIT, November 1989. "Afro-American Music & Its African Roots," for American-Soviet Conference sponsored by Union of Composers of the USSR, All Union Folklore Commission USSR, Folklore Commission of Composers' Union of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, Russia and IREX. June-July 1988. "Tradition and Consciousness in Black Popular Music." Society for Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan, November 8, 1987. "W. C. Handy and the Commercialization of the Blues," for joint conference of the U.S.A. Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), The Sonneck Society and the American Musicological Society-Allegheny Chapter, Pittsburgh, April l987. "A Multi-Cultural Approach to Music Education." Florida Music Educators Clinic/Conference - Keynote Address, Tampa, Florida, January l987. "Popular Music of Black America." Ford Foundation Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs Annual Conference of Fellows; National Research Council, Washington, D.C., November 1986. "Perspectives on Black Popular Music: The Role of Culture in the Creative Process." College Music Society, Miami, Florida, October 3, 1986; reviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov.

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12, 1986, p. 5). "Rhythm & Blues: 1945-1955: An Overview of Styles." Symposium on Black Popular Music, Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 1986. "The Commercialization of Black Folk Music: The Blues." Conference on Music in America, Smithsonian Institution, May 1985. Invited Lectures--Research Related “Black Power and the Ideology of Soul and Funk” for a series on Black Popular Culture, Black Popular Struggles, Stone Center for Black History and Culture, University of North Carolina (October 2005) “The Interaction of African American and Suriname Gospel Ensembles in the Netherlands” for the Atlanta History Center’s Black World Series (September 2005). “More Than Samples: The Sound and Politics of Funk.” Keynote address for Summer Teacher Institute, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH, July 2005. “The Motown Sound: A Northern Representation of Blackness?” for the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY (March 2005) “What is Ethnomusicology and What Do Ethnomusicologists Do?” for music students at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY (March 2005) “Response of the Music Industry to the Message of Soul” for Issue Forum, Our Day Will Come: How R&B Inspired the Civil Rights Movement, hosted by Rep. John Lewis during the 34th Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., September, 2004. “The Commodification of Gospel Music and Its Transformation into Popular Song,” University of Memphis” (April 2004) “Soul Music and Black Power,” University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 2003 “Hip-Hop In Dutch Culture,” Ivy Tech State College, Bloomington, IN, February 2003 “The Motown Sound: A Northern Representation of “Blackness?” North Texas State University, January 2003 “Motown: The Sound of Young America 1964-1968” for Detroit 300 Symposium, University of Michigan, October 2001.

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“Black Gospel Music and Hip-Hop in Dutch Culture,” African and Afro-American Studies Program Spring 2000 Lecture Series, Stanford University, April 2000. “Black American Music in Dutch Culture: Processes of Production” for Colloquium (Department of Music) University of California-Berkeley and Seminar for the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA March and April 2000 respectively. “African-American Music in Dutch Culture” for Muskie Millennial Series Lecture Series, Bates College, Maine March 2000. “The Evolution of African American Music,” Santa Clara Council for the Social Studies, San Jose, CA November 1999. "Soul Music and Black Power," University of Groningen, The Netherlands, June, 1999. “From Soul to Funk: The Eras of Black Power and Equal Opportunity,” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum,” Cleveland, OH June 1999 and 2000. “The Globalization of African-American Music” and “Black Gospel in the Netherlands: Aesthetic Issues and Performance Practices,” Carlow College, Pittsburg, PA, March, 1999. “Rap Music” for De Beyerd (Cultural Centre and Museum), Breda, The Netherlands, June 1998. “Black American Music: African Origins,” RASA, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 1998. “Issues of Identity in Black American Music” University of Oslo, Norway, April 1998. “From Street to Corporate America: Defining Rap within a Cultural and Commercial Context” and “The African-American Roots of Rock, Pop, and Beyond,” University of Victoria, Canada, March 1997. "Studies in African-American Music: Approaches, Ideology & Perspectives" for Colloquium Series, Music Department, Tufts University, November 1996. "From the Street to Corporate America: Defining Rap within a Cultural and Commercial Context" for Colloquium Series, Music Department and Center for African American Studies, Wesleyan University, November 1996. "African-American Music: Its Cultural and Socio-Political Significance in the Twentieth Century" for Assembly Series, Washington University, October 1996. "Gender and Music in the Context of Race" for College Music Society's Institute on Women, Music & Gender, Indiana University, June 1996. "Black Music in the Struggle for Civil Rights" for Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights,

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University of Texas, April 1996. "Aesthetic Issues in African American Music," Luther College, February 1996. "The Black Roots of American Popular Music," Central Missouri State University, January 1995. "Race, Rap and Reality: The Rap on Rap," Kansas City Conservatory of Music, March 1995 and Central Missouri State University, January 1995. "Black Music Aesthetics" Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, Eatonville, Florida, January 1995. "The Black Roots of Rock" & "From Rhythm & Blues to Rap," Emporia State University, November 1994. University Lecture Tour in the Netherlands: "Rap Music," University of Amsterdam, "Black Music: Soul & Rap," University of Groningen, "Popular Music and Afro-American Identity," University of Nijmegen. Tour co-sponsored by the Dutch Rock Music Foundation, October 1994. "The Influence of Black Culture on the Creative Process" for Unisys African-American Composers Forum and Symposium sponsored by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Inc., April 1994. "Rap Music," Muhlenberg University, Allentown, PA, March 1994. "Rhythm & Blues Combos and Vocal Groups," Western Michigan University, February 1994. "African American Music: A Manifestation of African Cultural Values and Traditions," The University of Montana and The University of Maryland, July 1994 and September 1993. "Race, Rap and Reality: the Rap on Rap," Colorado College and The University of Chicago, April/May, 1993. "The African Origin of the Blues" for the Blues Project, Prince George's Community College, April 1993. "African American Rhythm and Blues and Jazz: Their Impact on Music Performed by Diasporan Africans," Western Michigan University, February 1993. "Controversy and Diversity in the Rap Music Tradition," Old Dominion University, October 1992. "African American Music: Its Historical Significance," Indianapolis Public Schools on Infusion of African/African American Content in the School Curriculum, Indianapolis, August 1992, 1993. "Tradition and Innovation in African American Popular Music: Rap Music A Case Study" for Ford Foundation Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of Pennsylvania, July 1992.

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"African American Musical Traditions" for the Schomburg Center Schools Programs Summer Teacher Institute, Schomburg Research Center, New York, May 1992. "Black Music: The History and Culture of a People" & "Rap Music: Socio-Cultural Perspectives" for Xavier University and Jazz and Heritage Foundation, New Orleans, LA. April 1992. "Perspectives on Black Music: The Role of Culture in the Creative Process" for 15th Annual George Salisbury Memorial Series, Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City, March 1992. "African American Music Aesthetic" & "Rap Music: Socio-Cultural Perspectives" for Humanities Advisory Council Multicultural Seminar, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL, March 1992. "African American Music: The Role of Culture in the Creative Process," Duke University, October 1991. "Rhythm and Blues Styles Music from 1940-1969" for Portraits in Rhythm and Blues. Resident Associate Program Lecture Series, Smithsonian Institution, October 1991. "African American Musical Traditions" for the Schomburg Center Schools Programs Summer Teacher Institute, Schomburg Research Center, New York, and for the Texas Arts Council Teacher Institute, Houston, August 1991. "Black Music: Its Cultural Underpinnings," University of Wisconsin and Resource Network Summer Seminar, New York University, June 1991/April 1991. "Black Music: An Index to the History and Culture of a People," Bard College (N.Y.), Texas Southern University and Benjamin Banneker Honors College-Prairie View A&M University, February and March 1991. "Black Music: The Story of a People in Motion," Children's Museum, Indianapolis, IN, September 1990. "Has Gospel Become Pop, Or What Can We Call Take 6?" 19th Annual Black Musicians Conference, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, April 1990. "Black Music: The Spirit of a People's Culture," University of Central Florida's Distinguished Lecture Series, January 1990. "Rhythm & Blues" [with music critics Nelson George and Greg Tate from The Village Voice], The National Museum and Cultural Center Lecture Series, Wilberforce, Ohio, November, 1989. "Music Is Our Spirit!" (lecture/video, "Music As Metaphor") Clarion University, Pa., Trenton State

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College, Witherspoon School of Performing Arts (Indianapolis), April & October 1989. "Innovation and Tradition in Black Popular Music," University of Pennsylvania, February 1989. "Musicians' Unions, Music Rights, and the Recording Industry in the U.S." and "Fieldwork and Urban Music" for the opening of the Ethnomusicology Program lecture series, Zimbabwe College of Music, Harare, Summer 1989). (with Ruth Stone) "Creating Communities Through Music: The African and Afro-American Connection;" "Scaffolding Sound to Create Music in Africa and the Afro-American Diaspora;" and "Panorama of Musical Style in African and African-Derived Forms," Zimbabwe College of Music, Harare, Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe; Zimbabwe Academy of Music, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; and The University of Malawi, Africa, Summer 1988. "Tradition and Consciousness in Black Popular Music," and "Continuity and Change in Music Traditions," Harvard University, April 1988. "Tradition and Consciousness in Black Popular Music" New York University, November, 1987 and Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), October 1987. "Rhythm & Blues: Black American Popular Music," presented in conjunction with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Rhythm & Blues exhibition, California Afro- American Museum, Los Angeles, July 1987. "The African Roots of U.S. Black Music," NEH Summer Institute on African-American Culture for College Teachers, Trenton State College, July 1987. "Development of Rhythm and Blues in the 40s and 50s," Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia) in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Sounds of This City: African American Music in Philadelphia," April l987. "Tradition in Black Popular Music." Colorado College, February, l987. "Reflecting Culture in the Order of the Mass Through Music," Workshop on Black Catholic Liturgy sponsored by the Office of Black Ministry (Diocese of Brooklyn and Archdiocese of New York) and the Ministry of Black Catholics (Diocese of Rockville Center), Brooklyn, New York, November 1986. "Black Popular Music: The Creative Relationship Between Performers and the Black Community," Purdue University, November 1986. "Elements of African Music," and "African Elements of Contemporary Caribbean and Afro-American Music," for Summer Institute in African-American Studies for New Jersey Educators, Trenton State College, July 1986.

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"The Blues and American Popular Music," Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, March 1986. "The Black Music Industry and the Commodification of the Blues." The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, February 1986. "Popular Music of Black America: Its Cultural Foundation." Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania April 1985, The Indianapolis Public Library, January 1985 and The Children's Museum, Indianapolis Indiana, August 1984. "African Elements in Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, and Rap Music," University of Pennsylvania, February 1985 and Trenton State College, December 1984 and June 1985. Workshops for Teachers “African-American Popular Music—Rhythm and Blues, Funk, and Hip-Hop/Rap,” Central Connecticut State University, 2000 and June, 2001 (one-week course). Scholarly Service Editorial Series Co-Editor [with Mellonee Burnim], Black Music In Cultural Perspective, University of Illinois Press, 2003-present. Editorial Board --The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (2 volumes) to be published by Routledge 2004-present. Editorial Board for American Music Research Center Journal published by the Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder (1997-present). Advisory Board for Black Music Research Journal published by The Center for Black Music Research, Chicago 1995-1996. Contributing and Advisory Editor for The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World to be published by Cassell Publishers, England, 1996-present. International Advisory Editors for Popular Music published by Cambridge University Press, 1991-1999. Advisory Committee/Board Member Member of Advisory Group for the Smithsonian Institution, SITES exhibition on “American Roots

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Music 2004-present. Consultant for the Indiana Historical Society (Exhibition Department) on the development of an exhibition on Indiana Soul and Funk and Oral History project, 2004-2005. Chair, Research and Educational Programs Committee, Motown Museum (Detroit Michigan), 1993-1995.

Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1991-2000. Silver Burdett & Ginn Publishers [of Simon & Schuster Education Group] for K-8 music textbook series, World of Music, 1991-92. The Library of Congress for publication American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings 1990: A Selected List, 1991. Smithsonian Institution - Folkways Record Project, l987. Advisor/Consultant: Consulting scholar and on-camera interview for “Southern Soul,” program four of the BBC documentary series Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music, 2005. Consultant for Donna Lawrence Productions and the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage (Louisville) in the production of the musical component of an audio-visual program on the role of the church in African American life in Kentucky since the Civil War, 2005. Advisory Board/consulting scholar for Deep Soul, 4-part television documentary on Rhythm and Blues. I critiqued various drafts of the proposal/treatment and assisted in defining the framework and content for the series, (2002-2004). Historical Advisor for the 52-week radio series on rhythm and blues, Let the Good Times Roll, to be produced by The Rhythm and Blues Foundation and Smithsonian Productions for PRI and NPR. Suzan E. Jenkins, Executive Producer. I provided interview questions, contributed names for interviewees, and critiqued the treatment for 43 programs (1996-1998). Reviewer for radio and television proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, March, 1997. Reviewer for Rhythm and Blues Module of the Experience American Music Curriculum developed by the Music Experience Project (Bellevue, WA), 1996. Consultant for the Encyclopedia of Black Popular Music, a project of the Center for Black Music Research (Chicago), 1995.

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Consultant for the Henry Ford and Motown Museums (Detroit, MI) in the development of "The Motown Sound & Story" Exhibition Project, 1993-1995. Consultant [with Mellonee Burnim] for J. Michael Considine, Jr., Counsellor at Law (West Chester, PA) on a case involving gospel music choirs in the public schools, 1993. Consultant for Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Attorneys at Law (Minneapolis) on music copyright infringement case, 1990. Consultant for Daniel Levitt (independent filmmaker) on video documentary "The Keystoners," a 1950s rhythm & blues vocal group, 1990. Consultant (with Ruth Stone) to the Zimbabwe College of Music, Harare, Zimbabwe. Conducted research for and wrote the proposal for the establishment and implementation of an Ethnomusicology Program, Summer 1988-1992.