Contributors
- Contributors
Alex E. Chávez, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latina/ Latino Studies and Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Texas-Austin in 2010. Presently, he is developing his book manuscript Companions of the Calling: Huapango Arribeño and the Poetics of Place, an ethnographic mapping of vernacular geographies of musico-poetic performance across Mexico and the United States. His research interests as a cultural anthropologist and music scholar include Mexican/Latino folklore and expressive culture; human geography; US-Mexico migration; and Critical Theory.
Mercedes Krapovickas studied bandoneon, piano, and composition in Argentina. In 2005 she moved to Finland where she gained her MA degree in Ethnomusicology. Currently, she is completing a doctoral thesis on bandoneon poetics. She regularly performs tango and folk music from Argentina with the bandoneon.
Nora Gámez Torres is a sociologist who completed her PhD at City University London, with the dissertation "Living in Transition: Popular Music and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba." She was previously an assistant professor at the University of Havana in the Department of Communication from 2001-2009. [End Page 287]
