Esther M. Morgan-Ellis is Professor of Music History at the University of North Georgia, where she also coaches the old-time string band. She researches participatory music-making practices of the past and present. Her work on the American community singing movement can be found in her monograph, Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace (2018), and in a wide range of musicological journals. She has also written about the learning habits of old-time musicians and online singing practices developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Community Singing (2024) and editor of Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom: Crossover, Exchange, Appropriation (Routledge, 2024), which won the 2025 AMS Teaching Award from the American Musicological Society.

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