Contributors
- Contributors
Mark Brill is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Dayton. He received his PhD. in Musicology from the University of California-Davis. His dissertation is titled Stylistic Evolution in the Oaxaca Cathedral: 1600–1800. He has given many academic papers on Latin American music and film music.
Carl Byron is a composer and writer based in Los Angeles.
David Butler Cannata, a composer, pianist and conductor, earned a doctorate in historical musicology at New York University. His research interests focus on music of the 1860–1945 period. He has been the recipient of awards from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.
Omar Corrado, well-known Argentine musicologist, earned his doctorate in music history and musicology at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. At present he teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Católica Argentina. His area of studies includes the art music of Argentina and Latin America during the twentieth century.
Margaret E. Dorsey is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Houston-Victoria. Her book, Borderlands Music, United States Politics, and Transnational Marketing, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press.
Elizabeth LaBate is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the music of the Peruvian Andes, especially in Cuzco where she has carried out research. [End Page 140]
Marcos Napolitano is Professor of History at the Universidade Ferderal do Paraná in Brazil. His research interests focus on the relationship of Brazilian popular music, popular culture, and politics.
Donald Thompson, musicologist, conductor and music critic, has had a very active career as a teacher, researcher, and administrator at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. He has published extensively on various aspects of Puerto Rican music and musicians.
Michelle Wibbelsman earned her doctoral degree in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests focus on Ecuadorian indigenous festivals, social change, and identity politics. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Texas Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. [End Page 141]
