The following people have contributed their talent and expertise to the development of Afropop Worldwide programs and www.afropop.org. Thanks to all!

T.M. Scruggs Writer Photographer Consultant

T.M. Scruggs, Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, School of Music The University of Iowa

Dr. Scruggs is an ethnomusicologist whose geographical specialty is music of the Americas, encompassing Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Latino and other musics in the United States. He directed the Latin American Studies Program at Iowa in 1991-92. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin. His research for his Masters degree was on the Texas-Mexican conjunto music and dance tradition and his doctoral research centered on music and dance in western Nicaragua. Scruggs first collaboration with Afropop Worldwide is featured on the program Venezuela: The Rise of Afro-Venezuelan Music to the Present Day Hugo Chavez Era .

School of Music
The University of Iowa
tm-scruggs@uiowa.edu
http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/bios/MUSYscruggs.htm