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 compac...