Doug Seroff
Doug Seroff is an independent scholar living in Greenbrier, TN. He is coauthor (with Lynn Abbott) of Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895; Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville; and To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has also appeared in American Music, Black Music Research Newsletter, Blues Unlimited, and Record Exchanger, among others.
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
An invaluable musical history documenting the advent of the blues in black vaudeville
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition
Ragged but Right
Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
The groundbreaking study of “coon songs” and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows
Out of Sight
The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895
A deluxe, encyclopedic survey of the cultural scene that engendered the popular music of the twentieth century