Gerhard Kubik is one of the best-known scholars in the field of ethnomusicology and author of numerous books over a lengthy career. A cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and psychoanalyst, Kubik researches music, dance, and oral traditions in Africa and the Americas. He is author of Africa and the Blues; Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I: The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture; and Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II: Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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