Dr. Sophie Abramowitz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University in a joint appointment with the Department of American Studies and the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library. Her current book project, Playing the Folk, examines how authors like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Francis La Flesche adapted the language and ideas of folklore to create musical and dramatic performances, in order to exchange and address changing ideas of racial and gender self-definition. Her teaching similarly focuses on race, cultural history, and creative world-building through the practices of collecting and musical performance. Dr. Abramowitz also collaborates on a number of archival and digital projects, including a multiplatform compilation of recordings from the 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival, released on Third Man Records in 2019.
Erin Bauer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Her research examines musical...