Heidi Feldman is a Visiting Scholar and American Association of University Women American Fellow at the University of California, San Diego’s Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, USA. David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool, UK, from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. He first proposed the idea of EPMOW with blues scholar Paul Oliver in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since then. John Shepherd is Chancellor’s Processor of Music and Sociology at Carleton University, Canada. He was from 2012 to 2017 Carleton Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic). He has been a member of EPMOW’s editorial board since 1990. In 2000, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his role “as a leading architect of a post-War critical musicology.” Gabrielle Kielich is a PhD Candidate in the department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
This is a work of superlatives: breathtaking in its scope, unrivaled in its depth and truly representative of the boundless musical richness of the African continent south of the Sahara. There is no compendium like this Volume XII of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. * Veit Erlmann, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin, USA *