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Roberta Freund Schwartz
Roberta Freund Schwartz is an associate professor of historical musicology at the University of Kansas, and advising director of the University of Kansas Archive of Recorded Sound. Her areas of specialization include the music of the Spanish Renaissance, patronage studies, and African American popular music – jazz, blues, gospel, and rock and roll. She has produced articles on: the Spanish melomane and composer Saint Francis of Borja; the patronage of music by the Spanish nobility in the Renaissance; sexual euphemism in the blues; Meredith Willson’s The Music Man; and the role that British jazz critics played in popularizing African American music in that country.
Her monograph, How Britain Got the Blues: the Transmission and Reception of American Blues Style to the United Kingdom (Ashgate, 2007) was named the best book of historical research on blues, R&B or soul recordings by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections.