Cristina Magaldi is Professor Emerita at Towson University and holds degrees from the University of Brasília, the University of Reading, England, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on music during the 19th and 20th centuries, Latin American cultures, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. She is the author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu (2004) and her publications have appeared in Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Musical Quarterly, among others.
"""In her lively and absorbing study of musical life in fin-de-siècle Rio de Janeiro, Cristina Magaldi reveals how, in the creation, performance and consumption of music, people were able to explore and appraise social and cultural ties with others, both local and distant. By adopting a cosmopolitan perspective on city experience, cultural transfer, and early modernity, she deepens our understanding of music history in global rather than narrowly national terms."" * Derek B. Scott, author of Sounds of the Metropolis and co-editor of Confronting the National in the Musical Past * ""An impressive panorama of the transnational and transcultural experiences that shaped the urban soundscape of Rio de Janeiro in the aftermath of monarchy and slavery. In a series of engaging case studies, Magaldi follows artists, communities, businesses, and specific musical works to make sense of the complex net of meanings that permeated the fragmented visions of modernity that emerged in this cosmopolitan city in the tropics."" * Rogerio Budasz, Professor of Music, University of California--Riverside *"