Colaboradores
Hugo R. Viera Vargas, PhD
Concepto e Investigador principal
New College of Florida
Viera Vargas holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Indiana University, and currently, is Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Studies and Music at New College of Florida. Between 2008 and 2018, he taught at the Universidad Metropolitana and the University of Puerto Rico. In 2018 Viera-Vargas was the researcher for the Banco Popular de Puerto Rico music special, Más de un siglo: 125 años de música en Puerto Rico.
Viera-Vargas research and teaching focus on the intersection of race, gender, colonialism, and musical expressions in Puerto Rican and Caribbean societies. He has published in Latin American Music Review, Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Musiké, Caribbean Studies, and Revista Cruce
Noraliz Ruiz Caraballo , PhD
Investigadora
Ruiz Caraballo holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology-Musicology from Kent State University. Her research focuses on the Puerto Rican lutes: cuatro, tiple and bordonúa; particularly in the continuity and change of the instruments’ tradition and performance practice. She has also conducted research about underground music scenes in Puerto Rico and the production of indie pop, electronic and new music on the island. Noraliz has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the popular music program of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.
She is a member of the electronic indie band Balún and has performed in music festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. In 2020 the band Balún was featured on NPR Tiny Desk, where Noraliz can be seen playing the Puerto Rican cuatro. She is also a co-founder of the children’s music group Acopladitos.
Jaime O. Bofill Calero , PhD
Investigador
Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico
Jaime Bofill Calero received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Music Theory from the University of Arizona. Bofill Calero currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, where he also directs the Instituto de Investigación Musical de Puerto Rico y del Caribe (IMPCA) and the academic journal Musiké (https://musike.cmpr.edu/).
In 2014 he was awarded the Otto Mayer Serra Award for his article, “Bomba, danza calipso y merengue: creación del espacio social en las Fiestas de Santiago Apostól de Loiza” (Latin American Music Review). His short documentary “Sounds of the Street Vendors, Havana Cuba” (2015) received various distinctions in film festivals worldwide, and is currently working on another audiovisual project “Bajando por la montaña: Ecology of Gaita Music”. Bofill’s interdisciplinary research is currently focused on creating awareness about the relationships between music, sound and the environment. In 2019 he contributed articles to the special edition of Musiké dedicated to Hurricane María and Climate Change titled: “Conciencias Sonoras: Music, Art and Climate Change-An Introduction” and “Bajando por la montaña: Ecology of Colombian Gaita Music”. His articles “Creative Processes in Improvising Jíbaro Décima” as well as “Gaita, ecología y la diversidad biocultural del Caribe colombiano” are both forthcoming in edited volumes.
Noel Allende Goitía , PhD
Investigador
Noel Allende-Goitía is an independent scholar and researcher. At the Metropolitan Campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, he coordinated the Puerto Rican Music Studies and Research Center and the music graduate program.
He has a B.M. in Voice from the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico and an M.A. in History from the University of Puerto Rico. He made a postgraduate study in Musicology at the Center of Studies and Development on Cuban Music (1992), in Cuba, with Zoila Gómez. He holds a Ph. D in Music with a major in composition and a minor in Ethnomusicology from Michigan State University. He was a research fellow at the African Diaspora Research Project under the late Dr. Ruth S. Hamilton leadership.
Allende-Goitía has published books on Puerto Rico music’s social and cultural history, music instruction, and music historiography. He has presented his works at national and international conferences in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Spain, the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, and Ghana.