Samuel A. Floyd Jr. is Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Black Music Research, which he established in 1983 at Columbia College Chicago. During his tenure at the CBMR, he authored/edited five books, launched two periodical series-including the Black Music Research Journal, and published numerous articles. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music and has been named an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society. Melanie Zeck is Managing Editor of the Black Music Research Journal, the peer-reviewed journal of the Center for Black Music Research (CBMR). Trained as a music librarian and historian, she joined the CBMR in 2005 to provide fact-finding and fact-checking services for the Center's staff and constituents. In this capacity, she has collaborated with and provided extensive informational support for researchers worldwide on a broad range of topics in black music research and history. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop.
Professor Floyd's last major work stands with Amiri Baraka's Blues
People, Albert Murray's Stomping the Blues and Thompson's Rash of
the Spirit as one of the most elucidating studies of African music
and its legacy.
*Eugene Holley, Jr., Down Beat*
The Transformation of Black Music is an archetype for intentionally
designing and imparting one's legacy in a multitextual and
polyvocal manner, ensuring that one's contribution and network
remain as a living documentation for years to come.
*Alisha Lola Jones, Ethnomusicology 68.1 *
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