Lamont Jack Pearley is an applied folklorist, ethnographer and African American traditional music historian and practitioner enrolled at Western Kentucky University in the Broadcast, African American and Folk Studies graduate program. He produces and hosts a weekly segment on WKU Public Radio called the African American Folklorist, and is the founder and chief editor of the African American Folklorist Magazine. A non-traditional student, Lamont was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame as Great Blues Historian and TV/Radio Producer (2017) and Great Blues Artist (2018).
While at OpenDocLab, he’ll be working on Jack Dappa Blues, a virtual, web-based repository of blues culture and traditions.