CONTRIBUTORS
BIOS
Paulo
Alvarado is a
Guatemalan composer, producer, cellist, and journalist.
He is a founding member of the rock group Alux
Nahual, and also a member of the early musical group, La Cantoría de Tomás Pascual and the Contemporary String Quartet. The recipient of numerous awards for
classical performance and composition, he has produced and is featured on more
than a dozen long-playing recordings. As
a journalist, he has written more than 450 articles (essays and musical
criticism) for the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre. Currently,
he is preparing an album of his chamber musical compositions and working on the
soundtracks for several films.
Jorge
Arévalo
has an MA in Ethnomusicology from Hunter College.
He is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center in
New York City, where he is specializing in popular and traditional musics in the
Americas. He has also worked as a music archivist and exhibit curator in various
New York City-based cultural institutions, including several years at the Woody
Guthrie Archives, the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, and the Raíces Latin
Music Museum. He is an accomplished musician (guitar) who has recorded and
performed widely in the New York City area.
Susana Asensio has a doctorate from the University of Barcelona-CSIC in
Ethnomusicology and has published widely on music and migration, and the
relationship between music and marginalized subjects. She has been teaching and
conducting postdoctoral research at both Columbia University and New York
University.
Cecilia
Benedetti
is a doctoral candidate in the Humanities at the University of Buenos Aires,
where she also studied Anthropology. She
has taken an active role in various projects related to cultural processes in
the city of Buenos Aires.
Héctor
Castillo Berthier has
a doctorate in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(Mexico City), where he currently holds
Tere
Estrada,is
a musican and author of Sirenas al ataque.
Historia de las mujeres rockeras mexicanas, 1956-2000 (2000).
She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico
City) and wrote a thesis entitled, “Lenguaje e
identidad en el rock mexicano, 1985-1990.”
Héctor
Fernández L'Hoeste
received his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literature from SUNY Stony Brook
(1996). He is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgia State University in
Atlanta, where he teaches Latin American culture. His publications include Narrativas
de representación urbana (1998), a chapter of which centers on Argentine
rock. His articles on Latin American cinema, literature, and media theory have
appeared in journals such as Hispania,
Chasqui, and Film Quarterly. He has also authored pieces on the topic of Latin
American graphic humor published in Imagination
Beyond Nation (1998), the
International Journal of Comic Art, and in conference proceedings.
Reebee
Garofalo
is professor in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston. He has written numerous articles on racism, censorship,
the political uses of music, and the globalization of the music industry. He is
the author of Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music
and Mass Movements (1991), and is currently working on a second edition of Rockin'
Out: Popular Music in the USA. He
is also co-editing a volume entitled, Policing
Popular Music to be published by Temple University Press.
Michelle
Habell-Pallan is
Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Faculty Affiliate of Latin
American Studies at the University of Washington.
During 2002-2003 she was a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Center For Chicano Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara), and in
2001 was awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Research Fellowship. She is co-editor of Latino/a
Popular Culture (2002) and has published several articles on U.S. and
Canadian transnational Latina cultural production, including "'El Vez is
Taking Care of Business': The International Appeal of Chicano Popular
Music," in Cultural Studies
(April 1999). She is finishing a
book manuscript entitled, “Bridge over
Troubled Borders": Chicana and
Latina Popular Culture and Critical Transnational Imaginaries.
Josh
Kun
is Assistant Professor of English at University of California, at Riverside. He
writes a weekly arts column for The San
Francisco Bay Guardian and The Boston
Phoenix. His essays and
articles on popular music have appeared in Los
Angeles Weekly, SPIN Magazine, The Village Voice, and in numerous scholarly publications.
He has been writing about rock en
español and Latin Alternative music since 1993 and was the host of the
first commercial English-language Latin rock radio show in Los Angeles (The Red
Zone on Y107FM). He now hosts Rokamole, a weekly Latin rock music video and
culture show on KJLA-LATV. He has served as an on-air Latin rock consultant for
television (ABC, UPN, FOX Latin America) and radio (BBC's The World) and since
2000 has hosted the annual Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City.
Bryan McCann received his PhD from Yale University and is Assistant
Professor of Latin American History at Georgetown University. His recently
published book is entitled, Hello, Hello
Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (2004).
Julia
Palacios received
her PhD in history (2004) and an MA in sociology from the Universidad
Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where she teaches in the Department of
Communications. Since 1983, when
she was the first academic to introduce a course on the “History of Rock
Music” at the Universidad Iberoamericana, she has taught various courses on
contemporary popular culture and the global history of rock music.
In addition to publishing numerous articles, she has played an active
role in Mexico’s rock music scene working as a disc jockey and television
commentator. Her doctoral thesis is
entitled, “Mitos, sonidos, y sentidos: una historia del rock en México,
1954-1965.”
Deborah
Pacini-Hernandez is Associate Professor of
Anthropology and teaches Latino studies courses at Tufts University.
She is the author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music (1995),
numerous articles on Spanish Caribbean and US Latino popular music, and is a
co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music
Studies.
Walescka
Pino-Ojeda
received her doctorate in Latin American Literature and Critical Theory from
Washington University. She is
currently a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New
Zealand where her research involves literature, cinema, and music in Latin
America. Her most recent publication is Sobre castas y puentes: conversaciones con tres escritoras
latinoamericanas: Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Ferré, and Diamela Eltit (2000).
Pablo Semán teaches at the Universidad Nacional de General San Martín
in Argentina and is a postdoctoral fellow of the CONICET (Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Científicas, Educativas y Tecnologicas). His research involves
diverse forms of popular culture. His most recent publication is "Brazilian
Pentecostalism Crosses National Borders" (in collaboration with A. Oro), in
Pentecostalism and Transnationalism:
Africa/Latin America, by A. Corten and R. Marshall-Fratani (2003).
Abril
Trigo
is an Associate Professor of Latin American Cultures in the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University. He has published
extensively on Latin American cultural studies, with particular emphasis on the
historical formation of national imaginaries and their articulation to popular
culture in the Río de la Plata. His
publications include Caudillo, estado,
nación: Literatura, historia e ideología en el Uruguay. (1990) and ¿Cultura uruguaya o culturas linyeras? (Para una cartografía de la
neomodernidad posuruguaya) (1997). He
recently finished Migrant Memories, a
book on migrant theory based upon the ethnographic study of a U.S. migrant
community, and is a co-editor of Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, forthcoming with Duke
University Press. Currently, he is working on Políticas de la transculturación en la América Latina globalizada,
a book-length essay on eco-cultural formations in Latin America and a critique
of the political economy of culture in the periphery.
Martha
Tupinambá de Ulhôa
is Professor at the Instituto Villa Lobos of the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro
in Brazil. She holds an MFA degree
in Piano Performance from the University of Florida and a PhD in Musicology from
Cornell University. She has
published on various aspects of Brazilian music, both in Brazil and abroad.
Her current research centers on semiotic musical analysis of popular
Brazilian song.
Pablo Vila is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of
Texas in San Antonio. His research involves culture and identity in the
U.S.-Mexico border and popular music in Argentina. His most recent publication
is Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders:
Social Categories, Metaphors and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico
Frontier (2000).
Eric
Zolov received
his PhD in History from the University of Chicago (1995) and is Assistant
Professor of Latin American History at Franklin & Marshall College.
He is the author of Refried Elvis:
The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (1999) and co-editor of Latin
America and the United States: A Documentary History (2000) and Fragments
of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (2001).
His current research focuses on a cultural and diplomatic history of
Mexico and US-Mexican relations during the 1960s.