Ray Allen (10)

US producer related to World Music Institute Professor of music at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition, he directs the American Studies Program and serves as a senior associate at the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College. He teaches courses on American folk, popular, and concert music, and American cultural studies. Trained in folklore, ethnomusicology and American studies, Professor Allen’s research has ranged from African American gospel and Caribbean Carnival music to works of composers Ruth Crawford Seeger and George Gershwin. His most recent work has been on the urban folk music revival. Ray Allen is the Department Chairperson Music, Conservatory of Brooklyn College