Sydney Hutchinson

Sydney Hutchinson studied ethnomusicology at New York University (Ph.D, 2008), folklore at Indiana University (M.A., 2002) and piano performance at University of Arizona (B.M, 1996). Her dissertation was on gender and the transnational geographies of Dominican merengue típico. She has published three monographs, a translated novel, an edited volume, and numerous articles on Latino and Latin American music and dance.

Hutchinson currently runs the the DFG-funded project “Second World Music: Latin America, East Germany, and the Sonic Circuitry of Socialism” at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft and Medienwissenschaft.