Alejandro L. Madrid

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.

Biography Madrid received a B.M. in guitar performance from The Boston Conservatory, an M.F.A. in music performance from SUNY Purchase, an M.M. in musicology from University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. in musicology with a minor in comparative cultural studies from the Ohio State University.

Madrid is a recipient of the Humboldt Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Dent Medal given by the Royal Musical Association and the International Musicological Society for "outstanding contributions to musicology", the 2016 Humanities Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association-Mexico Section, the 2018 Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Robert M. Stevenson Award from the AMS, in 2016 and 2014, the 2012 Ruth A. Solie Award from the AMS, the 2010 Woody Guthrie Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch, and the 2005 Casa de las Américas Prize for Latin American Musicology

He has been invited to deliver national and international keynote addresses and lectureships, including the Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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