Scott Rollins
Scott Rollins has been a cultural entrepreneur for more than forty years. He has published three volumes of poetry and is translator of Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname; Boom’s Blues: Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime; and The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin’s Heart, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African, and New World influences that created it
Boom's Blues
Music, Journalism, and Friendship in Wartime
A recovery of the first book-length study of the blues and the story behind the extraordinary Dutchman who wrote it under Nazi occupation
Surinamese Music in the Netherlands and Suriname
Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation