Vaughn A. Booker is the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book is Lift Ever...view moreVaughn A. Booker is the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book is Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century (NYU, 2020).view less