A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she researches Latin American music – her works including Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta (2007) and Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2014) – and has worked as professor at Columbia University and Tulane University.

[1] She obtained her BM (1987) at the University of British Columbia, before obtaining her MA (1993) and PhD[a], both in ethnomusicology and folklore, at Indiana University Bloomington;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled Plotting Musical Territories: Three Studies in Processes of Recontextualization of Musical Folklore in the Andean Region of Colombia.

[3] She later worked as a researcher at the music archives of the Ministry of Culture (1997–1999), Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (1999–2001), and Centro Nacional de las Artes [es] (2001–2002).

Between Desires and Rights: A Critical Essay on Cultural Politics) and Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización (transl.

[4] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship,[5] and she and Martha Ulhôa co-edited the volume Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta (transl.