Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black Woman Trailblazer: Presenting and Interpreting Black Vernacular and Popular Musics in a White Cultural Institution¹

Portia K. Maultsby is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor Emerita of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and founding director of the Archives of Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University. She is co-editor (with Mellonee V. Birnim) of African American Music: An Introduction, 2nd edition (2015) and Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation (2016), and she developed the framework for the interactive Timeline of African American Music permanently featured on Carnegie Hall's website, https://timeline.carnegiehall.org/. Maultsby also served as lead senior scholar for the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American Music (Nashville, Tennessee).