Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros Joins GSSC as Humboldt Fellow
Ethnomusicologist Luis Gimenez Amoros joins the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) as Humboldt Fellow in October 2024. After a brief stint at the GSSC from October 2023 to January 2024, Amoros new fellowship has a duration of three years. “Sharing a Planet in Peril” (SAPP) member Prof. Dr. Sandra Kurfürst is Amoros’ academic host. Alongside Prof. Kurfürst, he will be affiliated with the GSSC’s Thematic Area South-South Relations.
In the past, Luis Amoros has been an Ethnomusicology lecturer at the University of Cologne (Germany), Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil), Rhodes University (South Africa), Sultan Idris University (Malaysia), and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Center for Humanities research.
His academic research focuses on music and refugees in the Sahara Desert (doctoral dissertation), sound repatriation and revitalization of historical recordings from African sound archives, and the historical circulation of Iberian music within an Afro-Asian context and in Latin America. His publications include the monograph ´Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe´ (Routledge, 2018) and the awarded album series ´The Unknown Spanish Levant´ (recorded in Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Turkey and Spain).
During his last stay at the University of Cologne, Amoros participated in various events, among them two Ethnomusicology recitals; “Voices of the River Rhine” and “The Historical Circulation of Music from the Spanish Levant”.
For more information visit www.luisgimenezamoros.com.
