Lynn Abbott

Lynn Abbott is an independent scholar living in New Orleans. He is coauthor (with Doug Seroff) 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 been published in American Music, 78 Quarterly, American Music Research Center Journal, and The Jazz Archivist.

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The Original Blues

The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville

University Press of Mississippi

An invaluable musical history documenting the advent of the blues in black vaudeville

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To Do This, You Must Know How

Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

University Press of Mississippi

A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition

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Ragged but Right

Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

University Press of Mississippi

The groundbreaking study of “coon songs” and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows

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Out of Sight

The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895

University Press of Mississippi

A deluxe, encyclopedic survey of the cultural scene that engendered the popular music of the twentieth century

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Stand the Storm

Spiritual Quartet Singing in the Struggle for Black Education

University Press of Mississippi

An invaluable history of spiritual singing groups and how their tours helped build historically Black colleges and universities in the South

  • Copyright year: 2025
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