Cristina Magaldi

Cristina Magaldi (born 30 August 1958) is a Brazilian musicologist specializing in Latin American music. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro and Music and Cosmopolitanism (2024). She is professor emeritus at Towson University. Biography Cristina Magaldi was born on 30 August 1958 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. She then got a PhD (1994) from University of California, Los Angeles; In 1998, she joined Towson University, eventually becoming professor emeritus. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of comic theatrical music genres in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1900". In 1998, she joined the Handbook of Latin American Studies as a contributing editor. She won the 2009 Irving Lowens Article Award for her The Musical Quarterly article on cosmopolitanism and music in Rio de Janeiro. In 2024, her next book Music and Cosmopolitanism was published by Oxford University Press.

Magaldi prefers academic research during breaks from her teaching career, citing the difficulties of balancing both of these aspects of her career. Music and Cosmopolitanism (2024)