This dissertation examines how practitioners of capoeira Angola develop sensory knowledge as a mode of racial politics. The ethnographic study focuses on master-teacher Mestre Cláudio’s …
Florianopolis, the island capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is home to endemic traditional music genres. Surrounding these genres are fraught areas of disagreement regarding traditions’ …
This dissertation examines the lived experiences and revitalized ceremonies of Bhutanese-Nepali Kirat Rai refugees recently resettled in Vermont in order to make a larger argument …
My project analyzes the intersection of listening, disability, and popular music in the twenty-first century United States. In particular, I focus on competing and contemporary …
Drawing on fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, this dissertation examines how sound mediates (anti)social and translocal relations in the soccer culture of Latin America’s …
This dissertation traces changing understandings of indigeneity in highland Peru, articulated in the ways people have adapted music alongside new media technologies over the last …