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Tufts University Arts, Sciences and Engineering
 
Name: Deborah Pacini Hernandez
Title: Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director American Studies and Latino Studies Programs
Departmental Affiliation: Anthropology Department
Degrees: Ph.D., Cornell University
Expertise: Subjects of interest:
Popular music studies, comparative Latino studies, community studies
Regional focus:
Spanish Caribbean Latinos in the US; Latin America and the Caribbean, with specialty in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Cuba
Major Awards: Rockefeller Foundation conference grant at Bellagio Study and Conference Center (Principal Organizer), "Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America, American Philosophical Society General Grant (Project title: "Music of the African Diaspora in Contemporary Cuba"), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. (Project title: "A view from the south: Spanish Caribbean perspectives on world beat and African cultural identity")
E-mail: deborah.pacini@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Books:

In preparation:
Reading Reggaeton: Historical, Crical and Aesthetic Perspectives, ed ty Raquel Rivera, Deborah Pacini Hernandez and Wayne Marshall (in preparation).

The Latino Musical Mosail: Music, Race and Place (in preparation)

Rockin' Las Americas: Rock Music Cultures across Latin/o America, co-edited with Eric Zolov and Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, University of Pittsburgh Press (2004). Transation to be published by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Colombia.

Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1995).

Recent articles:
“Latino Popular Music: Which Latins? Whose Music?” to be included in A Companion to Latino Studies, ed. By Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo, Blackwell Publishing (in press).

“Latinos in Cambridge: An ethnic community in transition,” in Latinos in New England, ed by Andres Torres, Temple University Press (2006)

“The Emergence of Rap Cubano: An Historical Perspective,” in Music, Space and Race: Popular Music and Cultural Identity, edited by Sheila Whitely, London: Ashgate (2004).

“Between rock and a hard place: Negotiating rock in revolutionary Cuba, 1960-1980 (with Reebee Garofalo). In Rockin' Las Americas: Rock Music Cultures across Latin/o America, co-edited by Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Eric Zolov and Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, University of Pittsburgh Press

"Amalgamating musics: popular music and cultural hybridity in the Americas," in Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, ed. by Frances Aparicio and Candida Jaquez, Palgrave/MacMillan (2003).

"Race, ethnicity and the production of Latin/o popular music," in The Production of Global Repertoires: Popular Music Within and Beyond the Transnational Music Industry, ed. by Alfred Smudits and Andreas Gebesmair, Ashgate Publishing (2002)

Editorials:
Co-editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies, house journal for US Chapter of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (2000-2006)

International Editorial Advisor, Popular Music, Cambridge University Press Advisory Editor, Popular Music and Society

Advisory Board, Journal of Popular Music Studies

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