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Ashawnta Jackson
About
Ashawnta Jackson is a writer and record collector living in Brooklyn whose love of music came from her Louisiana-born-and-raised parents. Her work has appeared on NPR Music, PBS American Masters, Bandcamp, Wax Poetics, and Vinyl Me Please, among others. She is the author of the book Soul-Folk (forthcoming 2024), part of Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Genre Series.