Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie ...

In Proverb Masters: Shaping the Civil Rights Movement, author Raymond Summerville explores how proverbs and proverbial language played a significant role in the long civil rights era. Proverbs have been ...

Elizabeth Spencer is “a master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle), her work called “dazzling” by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing short stories or novels, Spencer is acclaimed for holding ...

Raymond Summerville is professor of English at Fayetteville State University. He has published in Proverbium, the Journal of Folklore and Education, and other publications.

Frankie McIntosh is recognized internationally as one of the architects of the popular West Indian soca style that emerged in the late 1970s. A pianist and music arranger, he served as music director ...

Ray Allen is professor of music and American studies emeritus at Brooklyn College, CUNY and worked as a senior research associate at the Hitchcock Institute for the Study of American Music. His books include ...

Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) is author of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed ...

Macon Fry is an author, writer, and educator. He arrived in New Orleans in 1981 to record and write about the unique culture and folkways of south Louisiana. For the past thirty years he has lived on ...

Patricia A. Turner is professor of African American and African studies and vice provost of undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid ...