Juliana Pérez González

Colombian historian with a Master’s and PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo. She is the author of Las historias de la música en Hispanoamérica (2010), which received an Honourable Mention in the 10th Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize and is frequently referenced in postgraduate Music courses across the Hispanic world. Her second book, From Folk Music to Mechanical Music: Mário de Andrade and the Concept of Popular Music (2015), was awarded the Social History Prize (USP). Her groundbreaking doctoral research on música caipira and phonography was awarded first place in the 2019 Silvio Romero Prize (IPHAN). Between 2005 and 2007, she taught at the Faculty of Arts – ASAB of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia). In recent years, she has contributed to both Brazilian and Hispanic-American academia as a guest speaker, member of master’s and doctoral examination committees, peer reviewer for specialised journals, editor, article author, and participant and organiser of academic events. She was a researcher at INET-md, University of Aveiro (Portugal), as part of the project Liber|Sound: Innovative archival practices toward sound memory liberation. Recorded music, transcontinental experience, connected communities.