Southern Methodist University

Faculty Member, Music

Assistant Professor of Music History

Meadows School of the Arts

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The work of Professor Ramos-Kittrell in musicology and cultural theory focuses on religious culture in New Spain and popular music studies in Latin America. Specifically, he is concerned with how sacred music in New Spain served as a mattress for the molding of social meanings and perceptions in relationship with the political and economic landscape of the early modern Hispanic world. Moreover, his work in popular music studies explores how the language of mobilities has provided much of the theoretical grammar for an understanding of globalization, as explained in migration phenomena and transnational constructions of identity in music.

Previously, Professor Ramos-Kittrell served as joint faculty of Ethnomusicology and Latin American studies at Tulane University and as a Visiting Scholar at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies of The University of Texas. Some of his academic interests include Latin American colonial studies, music and early modern religious culture, issues of representation and identity in Latin American expressive culture, transnational cultural formations, and cultural citizenship.

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