Juanita Karpf is an independent scholar, former educator, and professional cellist. She is author of Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era, published by University Press of Mississippi. She has published in American Music, Black Music Research Journal, and Popular Music and Society.
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