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THOMAS L. RIIS has been at the University of Colorado at Boulder as the Joseph Negler Professor of Music since 2002 and as Director of the American Music Research Center since 1992. His most recent book, published as part of the Yale Broadway Masters series, is entitled Frank Loesser. He served as a senior scholar, with a Fulbright Fellowship, at the University of Lüneburg (Germany) in 2005–6.
Thomas L. Riis; Review: Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919 by Tim Brooks. Music in American Life; Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1922; Black People: Entertainers of African Descent in Europe and Germany by Rainer E. Lotz; Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Neil A. Wynn. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2009; 62 (1): 252–260. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2009.62.1.252
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