Doug SeroffDoug Seroff is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, Tennessee. He is coauthor (with Lynn Abbott) of Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895; Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” ad the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville; and To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has also appeared in American Music, Popular Music and Society, Blues Unlimited, and the Rag Time Ephemeralist, among others. Read More Read Less