Contributors
- Contributors
Samuel Araújo is professor of ethnomusicology in the School of Music of the UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), where he has established a graduate program and a research laboratory in ethnomusicology. His most recent research interests deal with popular music and culture in Rio de Janeiro.
María Inés García teaches at the Facultad de Artes y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional del Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. Her area of research focuses on the life, activities, and output of Argentine musicians from Mendoza.
Nanette de Jong received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Currently, she teaches ethnomusicology and flute performance at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her research broadly focuses on the music and rituals of the African diaspora, emphasizing their role in the establishment of collective memory. She has published articles on the Netherlands Antilles and on the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Elizabeth LaBate is a graduate student in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently is doing research on the music of the Peruvian Andes.
Alejandro L. Madrid holds a Ph.D. in musicology with a minor in comparative cultural studies from Ohio State University. His research interests include the intersections of modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism in twentieth-century European and Latin American musics, as well as popular culture and border studies. In 2002, he received [End Page 297] the III Premio Internacional de Musicologia Latinoamericana “Samuel Claro Valdés.”
Angel G. Quintero Rivera, a Puerto Rican social scientist, is professor at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras. His numerous books and articles address critical social, historical, and aesthetic issues of Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Thomas Turino is a professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Besides his well-known work on Peru, his field research in Zimbabwe resulted in his most recent book Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). [End Page 298]
