Recorded Music

Courses

Topics in Recorded Music: Latino New York

Education

Ph.D. Performance Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Biography

Alexandra Vazquez is an Assistant Professor in the Center for African American Studies and the Department of English at Princeton University. Prof. Vazquez's research and teaching interests focus on performance studies, U.S. Latina/o Studies, cultures of the
African diaspora, transnational feminist theory, and Latin/o American literature and criticism, with an emphasis on the Hispanophone Caribbean. Before coming to Princeton, Vazquez was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale
University. Vazquez received her PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.

Publications:

*Instrumental Migrations: The Critical Turns of Cuban Music (under contract with Duke University Press).

*La Yiyiyi: Impacts of La Lupe, co-editor with Ela Troyano (manuscript in progress).

*“Una Escuela Rara: Havana Meets Harlem in Montmartre,” Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2006.

*“Salon Philosophers: Ivy Queen and Surprise Guests Take Reggaetón Aside,” in Reading Reggaeton: Historical, Aesthetic and Critical Perspectives, eds. Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Wayne Marshall, and Raquel Z. Rivera. (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming
2009).

*Review of Marta Elena Savigliano’s Angora Matta, A tango-opera: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, Winter 2005.

*Review of Jill Lane’s Blackface Cuba 1840-1895, e-misférica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Fall 2006.