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COPYRIGHT 2006 Center For Black Music Research
Late in the summer of 2006, a conversation took place at the Center for Black Music Research concerning future CBMR initiatives. At one point, interim executive director Samuel A. Floyd Jr. paused to reflect, somewhat ruefully, that when he founded the CBMR in the early 1980s, he anticipated that it would have a finite life span. Its programs and publications having fostered a well-established and wide-ranging engagement with black music by the larger community of scholars, it would have fulfilled its mission and thus would have, in effect, put itself out of business.
Similar expectations may have been held by the pioneering scholars of women in music: preliminary studies would lead inevitably to extensive and continuing inquiry. But, as with studies of black music, those of women's contributions to the cultivation of musical traditions have yet to become well established or wide ranging, despite compelling evidence that an understanding of those traditions is incomplete without considering women's essential roles. Nowhere is this more true than in the context of musical traditions of African ancestry. Moreover, although Black Music...
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