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Ilene Marder
Back to all Ilene Marder (“Tango DJ La Rubia Del Norte”) is one of New York City’s most popular Argentine Tango DJ’s. Known for her beautiful tandas and ability to read and energize a crowd, she has played for such iconic tango salons of Buenos Aires as Parakultural at Salon Canning and Salon Marabu, Porteño y Bailarin, […]
Morgan James Luker
Back to all Morgan James Luker is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency (2016) and the founding director Tango for Musicians at Reed College. Morgan’s current research examines the materiality and management of historical sound recordings […]
Kacey Link
Back to all Kacey Link is the co-project director for the NEH Tango in the Humanities Conference and an independent scholar and pianist residing in Los Angeles, CA. With her tango research partner Kristin Wendland, she has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Tango and co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and […]
Matthew B. Karush
Back to all Matthew B. Karush is Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and co-editor of the Journal of Social History. An expert on Argentine political and cultural history, he is the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (2017).
Eric Johns
Back to all Eric Johns is a member of the academic faculty at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), and Archivist & Curator for the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His musicological research focuses on epistemology and genre in popular musics. In particular, he is interested in the intersections […]
Madeleine E. Hackney
Back to all Madeleine E. Hackney is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and a Research Health Scientist with the Atlanta VA. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Movement Science from Washington University in St. Louis. […]
Julián Graciano
Back to all Julián Graciano is a tango guitarist, composer, and arranger in Buenos Aires. Raised in a family of tango musicians, he has systematically worked out a pedagogical method for teaching tango based on his jazz studies. He is the author of Roberto Grela “La guitarra del tango” (February 2024, Melos), Método de guitarra […]
Nicolás Enrich
Back to all Nicolás Enrich is an Argentine bandoneonist and composer who has played with most of the best musicians and singers in the Buenos Aires tango scene, and since 2014 he has been a member of the Orquesta Nacional de Música Argentina ’’Juan de Dios Filiberto.’’ He has maintained an intense international solo career […]
Romina Dezillio
Back to all Romina Dezillio is a researcher and musicologist at the Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega” in Buenos Aires, Argentine, and studies Argentine professional women composers and performers in the first half of the twentieth century from a feminist approach and a critical gender perspective. Her teaching includes Argentine and Latin American Music History, […]
Omar García Brunelli
Back to all Omar García Brunelli is a researcher and musicologist at the Instituto Nacional de Musicología “Carlos Vega” in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he directs the research program Antología del tango rioplatense. He recently earned his PhD in History and Theory of the Arts from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos […]