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Colombian ethnomusicologist (born 1962)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ochoa and the second or maternal family name is Gautier.
Ana María Ochoa
Born (1962-10-09) 9 October 1962 (age 62)
Medellín, Colombia
OccupationEthnomusicologist
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2007)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisPlotting Musical Territories: Three Studies in Processes of Recontextualization of Musical Folklore in the Andean Region of Colombia (1997)
Academic work
DisciplineEthnomusicology
Sub-disciplineLatin American music
Institutions

Ana María Ochoa Gautier (born 9 October 1962) is a Colombian ethnomusicologist. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she researches Latin American music – her works including Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta (2007) and Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2014) – and has worked as professor at Columbia University and Tulane University.

Biography

Ana María Ochoa Gautier was born on 9 October 1962 in Medellín. She obtained her BM (1987) at the University of British Columbia, before obtaining her MA (1993) and PhD, both in ethnomusicology and folklore, at Indiana University Bloomington; her doctoral dissertation was titled Plotting Musical Territories: Three Studies in Processes of Recontextualization of Musical Folklore in the Andean Region of Colombia. She later worked as a researcher at the music archives of the Ministry of Culture (1997–1999), Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (1999–2001), and Centro Nacional de las Artes [es] (2001–2002). During then, she was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University (NYU) in 2000.

Ochoa was an assistant professor of music at Columbia University from 2003 until 2005, when she moved to NYU with the same title. In 2008, she returned to Columbia as an associate professor, before being promoted to full professor in 2015 and serving as chair of the department of music from 2018 to 2021. That year, she moved to Tulane University and became professor.

Ochoa's ethnomusicological research is centered on Latin American music. In 2003, she wrote Entre los Deseos y los Derechos: Un Ensayo Crítico sobre Políticas Culturales and Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she and Martha Ulhôa co-edited the volume Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta. She won the 2015 Alan Merriam Prize for her 2014 book Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. At Tulane, she was the 2016 Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar in Residence Award and the 2022 Monroe Fellow.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. Although her Tulane profile dates her PhD to 1993, her doctoral dissertation is dated to 1996 and Reports of the President and the Treasurer dates her PhD to 1997.

References

  1. ^ Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2008. p. 175.
  2. ^ "Ana María Ochoa Gautier". Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Plotting musical territories : Three studies in processes of recontextualization of musical folklore in the Andean region of Colombia". IUCAT. Indiana University. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
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  6. ^ Junqueira, João (2007). "Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta, Martha Ulhôa". The World of Music. 49 (3): 130–135. ISSN 0043-8774. JSTOR 41699797.
  7. ^ Reily, Suzel Ana (2007). "Review". Ethnomusicology. 51 (3): 486–492. ISSN 0014-1836. JSTOR 20174547.
  8. "Alan Merriam Prize". Society for Ethnomusicology. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  9. "Ana M. Ochoa Gautier". Tulane University School of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  10. Cardoso, Leonardo (2016). "Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Ana María Ochoa Gautier". American Anthropologist. 118 (2): 442–443. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 43912710.
  11. Hope, William (2016). "Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Ana María Ochoa Gautier". American Ethnologist. 43 (2): 390–391. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 43868077.
  12. Rodríguez, Mercedes López (2015). "Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Ana María Ochoa Gautier". European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (99): 167–169. ISSN 0924-0608. JSTOR 43673505.
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