"Música Negra To Música Urbana: Reggaeton

Música Negra to Música Urbana: Reggaeton, Race, and Commerce
Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT co-editor of _Reggaeton_ (Duke University Press, 2009)
Wayne Marshall is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. From 2007 to 2009 he was the Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology at Brandeis University, offering courses in Music and African and Afro-American Studies with a specialization in popular music and digital culture, Caribbean and (Afro)American music, and ideologies of race and nation. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (2007) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he completed a dissertation titled Routes, Rap, Reggae: Hearing the Histories of Hip-Hop and Reggae Together. Dr. Marshall has taught courses and lectured on music, culture, and society at Brandeis University, the University of Chicago, Harvard College, Brown University and other institutions across the United States and in the Caribbean. He has published reviews and essays in Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, Callaloo, Latin American Music Review, and The World of Music while writing for a broader audience via such journalistic outlets as XLR8R magazine, the Fader, and the Boston Phoenix. He is co-editor of the book _Reggaeton_ (with Raquel Rivera and Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Duke University Press, 2009). Dr. Marshall is also an active DJ and blogger (http://wayneandwax.com).
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Center Latin American and Caribbean Studies with support from a Salomon Course Development grant.
Free and open to the public.
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