Luis
Achondo Parra
Investigador Asociado
Luis Achondo es Profesor Asistente en Memorial University. Obtuvo su doctorado en Etnomusicología en Brown University. Su trabajo se enfoca en culturas expresivas latinoamericanas en contextos de violencia y precaridad. Su primer libro, The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football (Wesleyan University Press, en prensa), examina cómo el sonido media relaciones necropolíticas y (trans)locales entre los hinchas del fútbol en el Cono Sur. Sus proyectos han sido financiados por la Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, el Programa Fulbright, la Fundación Tinker y la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en volúmenes editados, así como en Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Sound Studies, Soccer and Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Musicological Research y Resonancias. También recibió el premio James T. Koetting y el premio LACSEM de la Society for Ethnomusicology.
Luis Achondo is an Assistant Professor at Memorial University. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Brown University. His research focuses on Latin American expressive cultures in contexts of violence and precarity. His first book, The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming), examines how sound mediates necropolitical and (trans)local relations among football fans in the Latin American Southern Cone. His projects have been generously funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Tinker Foundation, and Chile’s National Agency for Research and Development, and his work has been published in edited volumes, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Sound Studies, Soccer and Society, Journal of Society for American Music, Journal of Musicological Research, and Resonancias. He was also awarded the Society for Ethnomusicology’s James T. Koetting Prize and LACSEM Prize.