Ethnomusicology
nneiranieto@fas.harvard.edu
Natalia Neira Nieto is a human being dedicated to the study of music and visual arts. Neira Nieto studied musicology at the University of Vienna, completing a master’s degree with the thesis titled “Understanding the ‘Latin’ in ‘Latin Music’: A Review of Academic Discourses on “Latin Music” in the Late Twentieth Century and Early Twenty- First Century”. Additionally, Neira Nieto pursued studies in piano performance and earned a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL). Her interests include contemporary music in urban settings – particularly experimental and popular musics – as well as Latin American and Latinx musical practices in diaspora, focusing on topics related to migration, (self)representation, epistemological construction in music studies, value systems, and historiography. Neira Nieto has been an active member of local and international organizations dedicated to music scholarship, including the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD), and has recently joined the SEM. Currently, Neira Nieto is a graduate student in the PhD in Ethnomusicology program at Harvard University.