Christian Spencer
Director
With undergraduate degrees in Sociology (1997) and Music (2001) from Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, he received his PhD in Music History and Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in a joint program with Universidad Nova of Lisbon.
His research areas include aspects of space, popular culture, and traditional music. He has published articles and dossiers and has edited the books A tres bandas. Mestizaje, sincretismo e hibridación en el espacio sonoro iberoamericano (with A. Recasens, Akal, 2010), Made in América Latina: Studies in Popular Music (with J. Mendívil, Routledge, 2016) and Comunicación y Cultura Popular en América Latina. Nuevas perspectivas en tiempos de crisis (with Ch. Sáez and A. Vera, Ediciones U. Mayor, 2022).
Individually, he has published the monograph *History, Tradition and Performance of the Urban Cueca in Santiago, Chile (1990-2010)*, winner of the Fidel Sepúlveda-DIBAM Prize (2017, reissued in 2021). He has taught as a professor at the University of Chile, the Catholic University, UNAM, the Ibero-American University, and the University of Guanajuato, and as a visiting professor at universities in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.
As a performing musician, he has been a member of various choruses, Latin American folk music groups, and album recording projects, playing the Venezuelan cuatro and other Latin American string instruments. He is currently a researcher at the Center for Research in Arts and Humanities (CIAH) at Universidad Mayor and Director of the Millennium Nucleus CMUS, funded by ANID (2023-2025).
https://umayor.academia.edu/ChristianSpencer