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Raybon, C. Leonard
C. Leonard Raybon is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Tulane University. He is also the Director of Music at Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church. Raybon is the founder of Sacred Nine Project (sacrednine.com), where he engages with music, texts, and events from an earlier America in order to help shape a future one. Most recently, he collaborated with John Wood Sweet, creating a kind of musical companion to his multi-award-winning book, The Sewing Girl's Tale, about the first woman in the United States to sue for sexual assault (1793). In November 2023, Raybon's article, "Oh Don't You Want to Go," about the issue of whites singing African American Spirituals, was published in Journal of Singing. Raybon’s “The Busy Bee,” a setting of an Isaac Watts song text for TB or SA, is published by Santa Barbara. Raybon also hosts the Sacred Nine Project Podcast.