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Dick Blau is Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-- Milwaukee. His photographs have been published in many venues, including three books, Polka Happiness(1992), Bright Balkan Morning (2002), and Living With His Camera (2003).

Dick Blau

Charles Keil

Angeliki Vellou Keil

Steven Feld

Angeliki Vellou Keil is the editor of the Autobiography of Marcos Vamvakaris. (Vamvakaris is the most famous of Greek "urban blues" musicians)

Charles Keil is one of the leading ethnomusicologists in the world. He is the author of six books, including the ground-breaking Urban Blues.

Steven Feld is Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. A three-cd set of Feld's New Guinea recordings was recently published by Smithsonian Folkways. Among Steve's awards is a MacArthur Fellowship.