Julia Simon is Professor of French and on the faculty of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of four books, including Time in the Blues and Rousseau Among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics, the latter also published by Penn State University Press. She hosts the podcast Blues on My Mind.
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"With an impressive command of primary and secondary literature, including archival materials, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson makes an original contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarly work that seeks to understand music's connection to politics, society, and ethnicity. Simon's work is subtle and sophisticated." -Charles Hersch, author of Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity "A scrupulously researched, exceedingly well-written, and deeply insightful work of original scholarship. Surprisingly, there is very little written about Johnson; Simon's book thus fills a giant hole in the literature on American jazz, blues, and popular music from the first part of the twentieth century." -Andrew Berish, author of Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s