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Christian Eugenio López-Negrete Miranda
Christian Eugenio López-Negrete Miranda, MA Ethnomusicology (National Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM) and BA Ethnology (National School of Anthropology and History – ENAH), is the coordinator of the collective Rastreando el Reggae since 2003. His lines of research have focused on the popular music studies, African American music, African-diasporic music, music and locality, social history of music, reggae studies and Rastafari studies, conducting research and ethnographic fieldwork in different locations in Mexico, Belize, Jamaica and Cuba. He has also participated in various academic and cultural activities on the development of reggae music and the Rastafari movement, highlighting his participation in the Rastafari Studies Conference and the International Reggae Conference, held at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Kingston, Jamaica. In the same way, he has collaborated in different projects and cultural events with the Rastafari community in Mexico and with the Jamaican Embassy in Mexico. He is member of the Latin American branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, IASPM-AL. Currently holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at UNAM’s Faculty of Music, where he also teaches the Seminar ‘Reggae and Jamaican Popular Music: Origins, Development and Internationalization’.