Cristina Magaldi

Cristina Magaldi
Occupation	Musicologist
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)
Academic background
Education	University of Brasília University of Reading University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Concert life in Rio de Janeiro, 1837-1900 (1994)
Academic work
Discipline	Musicology
Sub-discipline	Latin American music
Institutions	Federal University of Alagoas Towson University

Cristina Magaldi is a Brazilian musicologist specializing in Latin American music. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro (2004) and Music and Cosmopolitanism (2024). She is professor emeritus at Towson University.

Biography

Cristina Magaldi obtained her BA (1979) from the University of Brasília, and she worked at the Federal University of Alagoas as a lecturer in music (1982-1985), before serving as associate professor from 1987 and being promoted in 1989.

During her time at the University of Reading, where she was awarded a Master of Music degree in 1988, Magaldi became interested in musicology due to her master thesis advisor Jonathan Dunsby. She then got a PhD (1994) from University of California, Los Angeles; her dissertation was titled Concert life in Rio de Janeiro, 1837-1900. In 1998, she joined Towson University, eventually becoming professor emeritus.

Magaldi specializes in Latin American music. In 1996, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of comic theatrical music genres in Rio de Janeiro, 1870-1900". In 1998, she joined the Handbook of Latin American Studies as a contributing editor. She won the 2005 Robert M. Stevenson Award for her book Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro. She won the 2009 Irving Lowens Article Award for her The Musical Quarterly article on cosmopolitanism and music in Rio de Janeiro. In 2024, her next book Music and Cosmopolitanism was published by Oxford University Press.

Bibliography

• Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro (2004)
• Music and Cosmopolitanism (2024)