Autore: Frankie McIntosh

Ray Allen is professor emeritus of music and American studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY and worked as a senior research associate at the Hitchcock Institute for the Study of American Music. His books include Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City; Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Urban Folk Music Revival; Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music and Identity in New York, coedited with Lois Wilcken; and Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City.