Dr. Portia Maultsby (Full Interview)
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In our second piece of bonus content for season 1 of Beef, host Bridget Todd sits down with African American music historian Dr. Portia Maultsby to talk about the origins of soul music, black culture’s unique effect on art, and the bitter divide between singers James Brown and Joe Tex. Dr. Portia Maultsby. Dr. Maultsby is a professor emerita of ethnomusicology at Indiana University where she also formerly directed the Ethnomusicology Institute. She was the founding director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture at Indiana University and a consultant for the National Museum of African American Music. She is also the founding director of the Indiana University Soul Review, a credited course specializing in black popular music. She co-edited African American Music: An Introduction, the definitive book on black music in America. She was a consulting scholar for PBS’s award-winning series about the Civil Rights movement Eyes on the Prize. And her work is the basis for Carnegie Hall’s "Timeline of African American Music." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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