Marc RiceMarc Rice is Professor of Musicology at Truman State University and Area Chair of the Perspectives of Music program. He has published extensively on gender and race issues related to jazz in the Midwest. His work can be found in American Music, Musicl Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of African American Music (forthcoming), and the Grove Encyclopedia of American Music. He has conducted fieldwork in Louisiana, tracing the Cajun music revival, and is currently researching the implications of the New Media on musical production and consumption. He teaches the music history sequence for music majors, courses on jazz history, the music of Louisiana, the music of political protest, and graduate courses on early music and on improvisation. Read More Read Less