Ana María Ochoa
Colombian ethnomusicologist (born 1962)
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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.
Ana María Ochoa | |
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Ochoa in 2008 | |
| Born | 9 October 1962 Medellín, Colombia |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Plotting Musical Territories: Three Studies in Processes of Recontextualization of Musical Folklore in the Andean Region of Colombia (1997) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ethnomusicology |
Sub-discipline | Latin American music |
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Biography
Ana María Ochoa Gautier was born on 9 October 1962 in Medellín.[1] She obtained her BM (1987) at the University of British Columbia, before obtaining her MA (1993) and PhD,[a] both in ethnomusicology and folklore, at Indiana University Bloomington;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled Plotting Musical Territories: Three Studies in Processes of Recontextualization of Musical Folklore in the Andean Region of Colombia.[3] 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; (2001–2002).[1] she was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University (NYU) in 2000.[1]
Ochoa was an assistant professor of music at Columbia University from 2003 until 2005, when she moved to NYU with the same title.[1] 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.[2] That year, she moved to Tulane University and became professor.[2]
Ochoa's ethnomusicological research is centered on Latin American music.[2] In 2003, she wrote Entre los Deseos y los Derechos: Un Ensayo Crítico sobre Políticas Culturales (transl. Between Desires and Rights: A Critical Essay on Cultural Politics) and Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización (transl. Local Musics in the Age of Globalization).[4] In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship,[5] and she and Martha Ulhôa co-edited the volume Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta (transl. Popular Music in Latin America: Points of Listening).[6][7] She won the 2015 Alan Merriam Prize for her 2014 book Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia.[8] At Tulane, she was the 2016 Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar in Residence Award and the 2022 Monroe Fellow.[9]