Cristina Magaldi
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 and Music and Cosmopolitanism. She is professor emeritus at Towson University.
Biography
Cristina Magaldi was born on 30 August 1958 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. She obtained her BA from the University of Brasília, and she worked at the Federal University of Alagoas as a lecturer in music, 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 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.
Magaldi prefers academic research during breaks from her teaching career, citing the difficulties of balancing both of these aspects of her career.