Alejandro L Madrid

Alejandro L. Madrid is a music scholar and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His books have received the AMS's Robert M. Stevenson and Ruth A. Solie awards, the Bela Bartok award from the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, IASPM's Woody Guthrie Book Award, and the Casa de las Americas Musicology Prize. He is associate professor of...See more

Alejandro L. Madrid is a music scholar and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His books have received the AMS's Robert M. Stevenson and Ruth A. Solie awards, the Bela Bartok award from the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, IASPM's Woody Guthrie Book Award, and the Casa de las Americas Musicology Prize. He is associate professor of musicology at Cornell University. See less