Alejandra Martínez-Rico is a PhD student in ethnomusicology from Bogotá, Colombia. Her interdisciplinary research engages the fields of Latinx and migration studies, music, gender, spatial politics, and digital humanities. She is currently interested in critical sonic practices, experimentalism in popular music, and the imaginary of cumbia in the Americas and the Global North.
Prior to Yale, she studied at Universidad de los Andes and, as part of a foreign job exchange program, at Wesleyan University. Both places gave her the opportunity to make an extensive artistic exploration in musics such as bullerengue and gaita from the Caribbean Coast in Colombia, historical and current trends in Experimentalism, and West African drumming. Apart from that, her previous survey of Bogotá’s independent music scene in the 2010s was connected with both her enthusiasm as a listener and her participation in a noise rock band.