Craig Werner is Professor Emeritus of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse, and Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul. He is currently finishing work on Freedoms, a two-volume history of the 1960s.
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