Contributors
- Contributors
Geoffrey Baker is a Senior Lecturer in the music department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco (Duke University Press, 2008) and Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana (Duke University Press, 2011), and co-editor, with Tess Knighton, of Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is currently researching music education in Venezuela and Cuba.
Leonora M. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Education at Oregon State University, where she has served as program lead for the Ph.D. and Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) programs and taught over thirty different courses. She completed her doctorate at Temple University in 1984. She has worked in the field of gifted and creative education for over forty years, as a teacher, parent, coordinator of the Mentally Gifted Program for Philadelphia Public Schools, a university professor, and researcher. She has published more than seventy books, chapters, articles, and technical reports; most recently, a study of the linear and network creative trajectories of Walter Burle Marx and his brother, Roberto. Her interests are in creativity; conceptual and theoretical issues; children's interests, thinking and metacognition; coping strategies; practical applications relative to gifted children; and contextual aspects of education.
Dmitri Cerboncini Fernandes é bacharel em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil (2004), doutor em Sociologia pela mesma instituição (2010), tendo realizado em 2008 um estágio na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris—França com bolsa FAPESP. Atualmente desenvolve estudos de pós-doutorado em História Social na Universidade de São Paulo, mais especificamente sobre as conexões existentes entre as legitimações do samba nos anos 1970 e as políticas de afirmação cultural negra emergentes naquele período.
Silvina Luz Mansilla es Doctora en Historia y Teoría de las Artes por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es musicóloga graduada de la Universidad Católica Argentina y profesora de piano del Conservatorio Nacional de Música "Carlos López Buchardo". [End Page 178] Investigadora del Instituto Nacional de Musicología "Carlos Vega" (Buenos Aires, Argentina), trabaja como profesora en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en la Universidad Católica Argentina.
Ha participado en congresos nacionales e internacionales, dictado conferencias y cursos de posgrado. Actualmente dirige equipos de investigación de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y del Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Ha sido colaboradora del Diccionario de la música española e Hispanoamericana, publicado en Madrid por la SGAE.
Bernardo Scarambone earned a Doctoral Degree in piano performance from the University of Houston and a Master's degree in Studio Teaching/ Piano Performance from Indiana University. He performs and teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. Maintaining an active career as a pianist, Dr. Scarambone performed in concerts and recitals in the US, Brazil, France, Spain and Germany. Holding thirteen prizes in national and international competitions, Dr. Scarambone has been performing, researching and writing about Nobre's compositions for over thirteen years. For the celebration of Nobre's seventy years of music and fifty of life, Dr. Scarambone was chosen by Nobre to perform the opening recital at the 2009 Virtuosi Music Festival in Recife, Brazil. Dr. Scarambone's personal contact with Marlos Nobre was a crucial element of the completion of one of the most comprehensive studies of the composer's piano works and detailed biography in his Doctoral Dissertation "Piano Works by Marlos Nobre". Dr. Scarambone performed the World Premiere of Nobre's Sonatina Op. 66 in 2004. His recent research areas include contemporary repertoire for the piano, entrepreneurial career options for musicians, student preparation to face the job market and community engagement.
Ketty Wong is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kansas. She earned a Master's and a Ph.D. degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master's degree in Musicology at the Conservatory Chaikovsky in Moscow. Her research interests focus on art, traditional and popular musics in the Andean region, particularly in Ecuador...
