Contributors
- Contributors
Coriún Aharonián, composer, educator and musicologist from Uruguay, is the author of several books and articles on music and culture. His special interests include folklore research and the theory of popular musics, in particular the current state of the tango in the Río de La Plata.
Michel d’Arcangues is the Vice-President of CARONI MUSIC, a new music publishing company specializing in South American music, with a special interest in guitar music. The company has already published works by Antonio Lauro, Vicente Emilio Sojo, Raúl Borges, Gentil Montaña and others. He can be reached at contact@caronimusic.com.
Helmut Brenner, Austrian musicologist, is a member of the Institute for Ethnomusicology of the School of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. He has researched and published on various aspects of Mexican popular music and musicians, especially on Juventino Rosas and Ranchera music.
Dorotéa Machado Kerr, teaches at the Instituto de Artes of UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista) and serves as the coordinator of the graduate program in music. She pursued her master’s and doctoral study in organ at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Indiana University in Bloomington, respectively.
Peter Manuel is a well-known ethnomusicologist who carried out fieldwork in various Caribbean islands and in India. He taught at Brown University and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and is currently at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City [End Page 268] University of New York. At present he is the editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Inc.
Marcos Napolitano teaches history at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil) and earned his doctoral degree from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). His research and publications focus on the relationship of Brazilian popular music, popular culture and politics.
Robert Parker, musicologist and a former Associate Dean of the School of Music at the University of Miami, is well known for his sustained research and publication on the life and works of Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas.
Maria Elisa Pereira graduated in history at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and in music (voice) at UNESP. She currently pursues graduate study in voice at the Instituto de Artes of UNESP.
Robert Stevenson, emeritus professor of musicology at UCLA, is the Dean of Latin American music studies, especially music of the colonial and the early Republican periods. His numerous publications reflect a lifelong enthusiastic dedication and a nonpareil achievement in the music of Latin America.
Pablo Vila, Argentine sociologist with special research interests and experiences in popular culture, has written on numerous topics of Argentine popular music, including rock nacional, from a socio-political standpoint. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at Temple University.
Patricia Vilches is Associate Professor of Spanish and Italian at Lawrence University, Wisconsin. Her primary research interests include twentieth-century Latin American literature by women, as well as the study of political processes in Chile through the phenomenon of Nueva Canción. [End Page 269]
