Anna Celenza is a professor of music and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of several books, including Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra, The Cambridge Companion to Gershwin, and Music and Human Flourishing. Her next book, Music that Changed America, will be published next year. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a writer/commentator for NPR’s “Performance Today.”