Cristina Magaldi
Brazilian musicologist
Cristina Magaldi (born 30 August 1958) is a Brazilian musicologist specializing in Latin American music. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro (2004) and Music and Cosmopolitanism (2024). She is professor emeritus at Towson University.
Biography
Cristina Magaldi was born on 30 August 1958 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. She obtained her BA (1979) from the University of Brasília, and she worked at the Federal University of Alagoas as a lecturer in music (1982-1985), before serving as associate professor from 1987 and being promoted in 1989.
During her time at the University of Reading, where she was awarded a Master of Music degree in 1988, Magaldi became interested in musicology due to her master thesis advisor Jonathan Dunsby. She then got a PhD (1994) from University of California, Los Angeles; her dissertation was titled Concert life in Rio de Janeiro, 1837-1900. In 1998, she joined Towson University, eventually becoming professor emeritus.
Magaldi specializes in Latin American music. In 1996, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of comic theatrical music genres in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1900".
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