Expertise

He is an experienced performer and ensemble director of a variety of Latin American and Caribbean genres. His research interests have dealt with multiple aspects of music in the region, including music and nationalism, the intersection of popular and art music traditions, African and indigenous musical heritage safeguarding, and the history of cultural policy and music research institutions in the region.


Subject Area: Folklore


His research interests include the relationship between Latin American music, cultural policy, archives, heritage safeguarding, race and the neoliberalization of the culture industries in Latin America.


Keywords:

  • Minority Languages and Cultures Project
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Newcomb Department of Music, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University (past)

Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology Institute

Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Folklore Institute

Assistant Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Literature, Chicano/a Studies, Music
Degrees
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Ethnomusicology, 2003
MMus, University of Texas at Austin, Ethnomusicology, 1997
BA, University of California, Berkeley, Astrophysics, 1993