Daniel
Party Tolchinsky
Principal researcher
Daniel Party is a musicologist and tenured professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he holds a shared appointment at the College and the Faculty of Arts. He has been visiting professor at the University of Texas, Brown University, Tulane University, and the Universities of Georgia and Oregon. His research has focused on popular music from the Americas and Spain, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality perspectives and the uses of music in social movements
He is currently the principal investigator of the ANID-Fondecyt project “Gender Gap and Gender Performance in Latin Collaborative Songs” (2026-2029) and co-investigator in the ANID-Fondecyt project “Networks, shelters and mentoring: the Chilean communist party and the performing arts (1958-1970)” (2026-2028).