John F. Szwed

John F. Szwed is an American music scholar and the John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Film Studies at Yale University. He also serves as an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies. Szwed has authored numerous books on American music, featuring in-depth studies on figures such as Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax, Billie Holiday, and Harry Everett Smith.