Sultana Isham is a multi-hyphenate artist, composer and academic who specializes on the intersection of race, gender and ethnomusicology. Having trained in classical violin in her home city of Virginia, she later moved to New Orleans to immerse herself in studying musical histories in and beyond the Americas. She has also scored and composed for film and TV, including the documentary “All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk,” for which she also acted as a researcher. We featured the first segment of her multimodal project about Papa Joe’s World Famous Female Impersonators, a historically segregated trans strip club in New Orleans.
