Ruth M. Stone is Laura Boulton Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and African Studies. She has edited Africa (1998) and The Handbook of African Music (2000) in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music series. She has also authored Music in West Africa (2004), Dried Millet Breaking (1998), and Let the Inside be Sweet (1982) based on fieldwork conducted among the Kpelle of Liberia, West Africa. She also works on multimedia projects. Her first was a co-authored project entitled, Five Windows on Africa (2000). More recently she has been co-project director for the EVIA Digital Archive, an electronic publication that will be accessible over Internet 2.