Contributors to This Issue

PAUL AUSTERLITZ is a distinguished professor at the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York. He is the author of Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity; Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity; and The Urban Maroons of Afro-Dominican Music. In his capacity as a musical artist, Austerlitz has recorded the albums Dr. Merengue, The Vodou Horn, and Water Prayers for Bass Clarinet. Austerlitz has taught at Brown University, Gettysburg College, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and the National Conservatory of the Dominican Republic.BENJAMIN BARSON (he/him) is an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. He is a composer, historian, and musicologist. His recently published Brassroots Democracy (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) explores jazz as an Afro-Atlantic art form deeply connected to the counter-plantation legacies of the Haitian Revolution and their resonances in Radical Reconstruction. He earned his PhD in music from the University of Pittsburgh. He recently completed a Fulbright Garcia-Robles postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexicali, Mexico; an artistic residency at the University of Wisconsin's Division of the Arts; and a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University's Africana Studies and Research Center.AARON CARTER-ÉNYì is a scholar in residence at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He holds a PhD from Ohio State University (2016), was a Fulbright Scholar to Nigeria in 2013 and 2019, and was a 2022 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His research has also been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the US Department of State, and the Wallace Foundation. His articles have appeared in Africa, Analytical Approaches to World Music, Ethnomusicology, Frontiers in Psychology, Intersections, ISMIR Proceedings, Music & Science, Music Theory Online, Muziki, Oxford Handbook of Singing, Performance Research, Perspectives of New Music, and Tonal Aspects of Languages.SCOTT GRAY DOUGLASS is a bassist and youth orchestra teacher from Richmond, Virginia. Currently a lecturer in music at Columbia University, he is the author of “The Influence of D. Antoinette Handy—Musician, Scholar, Administrator, Visionary—on the Expansion of Music Education in Richmond, Virginia” and “Fishers of Song: Music Education and Community in Andavadoaka, Madagascar” as well as coauthor of “Lonnie Liston Smith: An Oral History.” You can learn about his Richmond Jazz Oral History Project at scottgraydouglass.substack.com.ELIZABETH FRICKEY (she/her) is a PhD student in musicology and MacCracken Fellow at New York University. Prior to her studies at NYU, she earned her master's degree in musicology at Indiana University and her bachelor's degree in instrumental music education from Florida State University. Her current research examines the cultural, ecological, and political impact of community gardens and other urban greenspaces through the lens of music and sound. Elizabeth has presented her work in numerous settings, including at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the 2023 Music, Research, and Activism conference.GEORGE LIPSITZ is research professor emeritus of Black studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is coeditor of the American Crossroads book series at the University of California Press and editor of the Insubordinate Spaces series at Temple University Press. Lipsitz's single authored books include The Danger Zone Is Everywhere, Midnight at the Barrelhouse, Footsteps in the Dark, Dangerous Crossroads, and Time Passages. He is the coauthor of Insubordinate Spaces (with Barbara Tomlinson) and The Fierce Urgency of Now (with Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin).JHENSEN ORTIZ is a librarian at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library at the City College of New York. His present academic and research interests are centered on digital library collections, the history of the Dominican community in the United States, twentieth-century visual and material culture, and audiovisual media. He holds a BA in history from the City College of New York and a dual master's degree in library science and history with a certificate in archives and the preservation of cultural materials from Queens College (CUNY).DONNY WHITEHEAD (b. 1947) is a lifelong resident of Athens, Georgia. He attended Athens High School and Gainesville Junior College. Starting at age fourteen, Donny performed saxophone with Athens-area bands for sixty-five years, including the Jesters, the Grains of Sand, Reverend Tribble Deacon, and Take 5. As a member of the Jesters, Whitehead performed with many of the great R&B artists of the 1960s as they toured the southeastern United States, including Jerry Butler, the Platters, and Jackie Wilson. He married Dell Whitehead in July 1969, and they have two children and four grandchildren, most of whom play the saxophone.EL WILLIAMS III's poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion Magazine, New England Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He earned a dual MA/MFA in African American and African diaspora studies and creative writing from Indiana University and is currently a doctoral student studying literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.