Alejandro L. Madrid | |
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| Born | Alejandro Luis Madrid-González 1968 (age 55–56) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University (Ph.D., 2003) |
| Known for | Study of music in Mexico, Latin American music, music of Latinos in the United States, 20th-century music, popular music studies |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Dent Medal, Philip Brett Award, Robert M. Stevenson Award, LASA-Mexico's Humanities Book Award, Ruth A. Solie Award, Woody Guthrie Book Award, Premio de Musicología Casa de las Américas, Premio de Musicología Samuel Claro Valdés |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Musicology, ethnomusicology, Latin American studies, Latino studies, Sound studies |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Writing Modernist and Avant-Garde Music in Mexico. Performativity, Transculturation, and Identity after the Revolution, 1920-30 (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arved Ashby |
| Website | music |
Alejandro Luis Madrid-González (born August 25, 1968) is an American music scholar, cultural theorist, and professor, whose research focuses on Latino and Latin American musics and sound practices. He is the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University.[1]