The Author: Robert H. Cataliotti is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Coppin State University in Baltimore, where he teaches American and African-American literature. He is the author of The Music in African-American Fiction (1995). As a music critic/historian, he was the recipient of a 1983 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and is the producer and annotator of the Smithsonian Folkways compact discs «Every Tone a Testimony: An African-American Aural History» (2001) and «On My Journey: Paul Robeson¿s Independent Recordings» (2007). He also is the producer and annotator of the compact disc that accompanies Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition (1998).