Dwandalyn R. Reece PhD is associate director for curatorial affairs and the former curator of music and performing arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, where she curated the museum's permanent exhibition, Musical Crossroads for which she received the Secretary's Research Prize in 2017.

Foreword by Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Profiles and stories by historians and specialists at the National Museum of African American History and Culture: Timothy Anne Burnside, Hannah Grantham, Tuliza Fleming, Steven W. Lewis, Vanessa L.
Moorer, Kelly Elaine Navies, Dwandalyn R. Reece, Douglas T. Remley, Deborah Tulani Salahu-Din, Kevin M. Strait, Angela Tate, and Eric Lewis Williams.