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Christopher J. Smith
Christopher J. Smith is Associate Professor, Chair of Musicology, and director of the Vernacular Music Center at the Texas Tech University School of Music. His research interests are in African American Music, 20th Century Music, Irish traditional music and other vernaculars, improvisation, music and politics, and historical performance. He records and tours with Altramar medieval music ensemble, the Irish traditional band Last Night’s Fun, and the Juke Band, and directs the TTU Celtic Ensemble; his book The Creolization of American Culture appears in September 2013. He is a former nightclub bouncer, carpenter, lobster fisherman, and oil-rig roughneck, and a published poet