Brigido Galván has over 30 years of experience as a professional musician in Ontario, performing Latin American, Anglo-American, and world musics. He has 10 years of university teaching experience and holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from York University. His expertise includes Latin American music, guitar instruction, and research on issues of musical identity and authenticity relating to globalization.

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Brigido Galván,
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology
35 Ormskirk Avenue, unit # 720
Toronto, ON M6S 1A8
Phone: (647) 964-5080
Email address: brigido@sympatico.ca
Curriculum Vitae
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
• Over thirty years experience as Professional Musician in Ontario,
acting as band leader and freelancer, performing as a guitar,
requinto, an Cuban tres player and singer various popular and
folkloric Latin American musics, Anglo-American popular musics,
World Music and jazz. In charge of marketing and promotion, as well
as the financial and logistic management of ensembles.
• Member of a four-person team responsible for the development of a
graduate studies program in popular music at the Université du
Quebec à Montreal.
• Ten years of university-level teaching experience as full time
professor, course director, teaching assistant and instructor in
performance and academic music, fine arts and cultural studies
courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
• Member of various research teams: fieldwork and ethnographic
analysis within Latin American and West Indian music communities in,
Toronto Ottawa and Montreal. Compilation of annotated
bibliographies and diverse archival materials for research and
publication.
• Numerous presentations and workshops dealing with popular music at
international and university conferences as well as for non-academic
audiences.
• Helped complete a successful grant application with the Canada
arts council for a 10-piece Cuban orchestra from Toronto to perform
at an international music conference in Newfoundland.
• Well versed in a broad, multidisciplinary range of literature in English,
Spanish and French in the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology,
sociology, as well as cultural studies and postcolonial studies; with
emphasis on issues of musical authenticity and identity as they relate
to globalization and technology.

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• Over twenty years experience teaching guitar and other related
music skills to groups and individuals at various levels in university,
college and private settings.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the sensitivity required to work in
multicultural and multilingual settings.
• Excellent writing and verbal skills; fluent in English, Spanish and
proficient in French.
• Good computer skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MoneyWiz
Financial Management, EndNote bibliographic data base, Finale
desktop music publishing, among other software.
EDUCATION
2010 Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology)
York University, Toronto, Ontario
Dissertation: “Arranging Hybridity: Cuban-Canadian
Musicians, Global Culture and Politics of Genre in Toronto.”
Nominated for the Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarship by the
Examining Committee.
2010 Graduate Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
York University and the Centre for Research on Latin America and
the Caribbean (CERLAC), Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Masters in Music (Ethnomusicology)
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Thesis: “Partially-Automated Live Performance by Latin
American Musicians in Two Canadian Cities: Musical Identity
and Authenticity in a Globalized Cultural Economy.”
1992 Bachelor of Music (Magna Cum Laude) with classical guitar, and
theory and composition majors. University of Ottawa, Ottawa,
Ontario.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, Spanish and proficient in French.
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Musician and Bandleader
1975 to Present
Band leader and freelancer based in Toronto and Ottawa; performing Latin
American and Anglo-American popular musics across Ontario, and other
provinces. Administering the business and logistics of ensembles, including
marketing and promotion, negotiating contracts with agents and

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purchasers, procuring transportation and sound equipment, recording
incomes and expenses, and taking care of payroll.
Guitar Instructor
Emery Adult Secondary School
March 2012 to January 2015
Toronto, Ontario
Teaching basic guitar skills to over thirty students as well as
directing a adult guitar ensemble. In charge of the purchase and
maintenance of instruments.
Private Guitar Instruction
1980 to Present
Teaching various levels of classical, rock, jazz and Latin American
styles.
University Professor
Professor of Ethnomusicology
June 2004 to May 2005
Département de musique, Université du Québec à Montréal.
• Conducting an 8-piece Latin music ensemble and a 7-piece
jazz guitar ensemble;
• Guitar professor to individual students
• Member of a team developing a research graduate program
in Popular Music Studies.
Course Directorships: Ethnomusicology
Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
September 2002 to April 2003
• Designed and taught the undergraduate course World Music:
African, Latin American and Caribbean Musics. The course
introduced students to various understandings of globalization
and its impact on music/culture.
Department of Fine Arts and Culture, York University
September 1996 to April 1997
• Taught the third/fourth year compulsory undergraduate course
Contemporary Issues in Arts and Culture. Designed the course as
a comparative perspective on national identity and culture in
Latin America and Canada.

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Teaching Assistantships
Tutorial Leader
Department of Music, York University
September 1999 to April 2000
3rd year undergraduate course, Musics of World Cultures for
Professor Dorothy De Val.
Tutorial Leader
Department of Music, York University
September 1998 to April 1999
2nd year undergraduate course, Musics of World Cultures for
Professor Steve Otto.
Tutorial Leader
Department of Fine Arts/Cultural Studies, York University
September 1997 to April 1998
1st year undergraduate course, Arts and Ideas for Professor Annemarie
Lewis.
Guitar Instructor
Department of Music, University of Ottawa
January 1994 to April 1994
Teaching basic classical guitar skills and pedagogic methods to music
education students.
Assistant Instructor in Jazz improvisation
Department of Music, University of Ottawa
September 1993 to April 1994
Helping to organize ensembles and demonstrate principles of jazz
improvisation in a workshop format for Professor Rob Frane.
Solfege Instructor
Department of Music, University of Ottawa
September 1992 to April 1993
Conducting sight-singing and dictation tutorials in one-hour sessions
three times a week for a class of twenty-five students. Testing and
grading were also included.
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
July 2011
“The Charanga Orchestra and Cuban Music”, workshop presented at
the 41st World Conference of the International Council for Traditional
Music at Memorial University, St. John’s Newfoundland, July, 2011.
November 2004
“Latin Music: Sounding Identity Against Difference”, workshop
presented at the international conference, Critical Worlds I: Thinking
Through World Music/Pense la musique du monde, sponsored by the
Universities of Montréal and Laval, Montréal, Québec, November,
2004.

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Department of Music, York University
Musics of Mexico
September 1996 to April 2002
Yearly performance demonstrations with ethnomusicological
perspectives, for professor Robert Witmer’s graduate and
undergraduate course, Musics of Latin American and the Caribbean.
Department of Cultural Studies, Trent University
Afro-Cuban music
July 2000 and January 2001
Performance practice demonstrations with ethnomusicological
perspectives on issues of race and national identity, for professor Ellen
Waterman’s undergraduate course on World Music.
Department of Music, York University
The Beatles
January 2000
Lecture on technology and issues of authenticity in popular music, for
professor Dorothy De Val’s undergraduate course, Musics of World
Cultures.
Department of Music, University of Ottawa
Musics of Mexico
November 1994
Descriptive survey, for professor Jocelyne Guilbault’s undergraduate
course, Musics of the World: Latin America and the Caribbean.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Research Assistant
May to August 2000
To Professor Beverley Diamond in her research on the
recording practices of Native Canadian artists.
Research Assistant
Department of Music, York University
September 1995 to 1997
Member of Professor Beverley Diamond’s “Canadian Musical
Pathways” research project, funded by the Social Sciences and the
Humanities Research Council of Canada (SHRCC).
• Conducted a survey and reported on the roles Latin American
broadcast and print media in Canada play in the musical lives of
Latin American-Canadian communities.
Research Assistant
Department of Music, University of Ottawa
May 1994 to September 1995

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Assistant to Professor Jocelyne Guilbault in her research project “Super
Stars of the English Caribbean,” funded by the Social Sciences and the
Humanities Research Council of Canada.
• Interviewed local and international soca, calypso and dancehall
artists, concert promoters, music retailers, community leaders,
media figures and audience members within the West Indian
communities in Montreal and Ottawa. Audio-taped and
transcribed ethnographic interviews, produced detailed
ethnographic reports, collected print media and promotional
materials. Compiled and annotated an extensive bibliography
(493 entries) including scholarly and popular writings relevant to
the study of West Indian music practices in Canada.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
November 2013
“Competing Masculinities: Cuban-Canadian Musicians, Competition
and the Decline of Live Salsa Music in Toronto.” Presented at the
Society for Ethnomusicology 58th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis,
Indiana, November, 2013.
November 2011
“’Salsa Con Timba’: Dancing Audiences and the Politics of Hybridity in
Toronto.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology and Congress
on Research in Dance, Joint Annual Meeting—Moving Music/Sounding
Dance, Philadelphia, November, 2011.
June 2011
“Cuban Canadian Musicians in Toronto: Hybridity, the Politics of
Genre,” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian
Chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music—Music and Environment: Place, Context Conjuncture, McGill
University, Montréal, Québec, June, 2011.
April 2001
“What Difference Does Difference Make?: Cuban Music and Toronto’s
Racial Soundscapes.” Presented at the annual conference of the
Canadian Chapter of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, April,
2001.
June 2000
“Racial Soundscapes and Toronto’s Latin Hip Hop: Challenging the
Postmodern.” Presented at Soundscape: A Conference on Acoustic
Ecology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, June-July, 2000.
April 1998

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“’Lugar Latino’: Time, Space, Technology and the Politics of Place in
Latin American Music Practices in Canada.” Presented at the Annual
Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music, Montreal, April, 1998.
October 1996
“Humanizing the Machine: Technology Versus Cultural Traditionalism
and Latin American Musicians in Canada.” Presented at the 41st
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto October-
November, 1996.
October 1996
“Partially-Automated Live Performance: Musical Identity and
Authenticity in a Globalized Cultural Economy.” Presented at the
Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 27th
Congress hosted by CERLAC, York University, Toronto November, 1996.
November 11, 1994
“Salsa: A Strategy and a Symbol of Pan-Latin Community in the
Canadian Context.” Co-written and co-presented with Prof. Jocelyne
Guilbault at the University of Ottawa with the sponsorship of Foro
Ibero-Americano (Latin American Forum).
PUBLICATIONS
“Sonic Cleansing: The Uncontaminated Other and Toronto’s Cuban
Music Scene,” in 2002, Ellen Waterman ed., Sonic Geography
Imagined and Remembered: Acoustic Ecology at the Millennium,
Toronto: Penumbra Press pp. 38-52.
PUBLIC COMPETITION ACHIEVEMENTS
2012
Nominated to stand for election as Regular Member of the Society of
Ethnomusicology Council 2012-2015.
2010
Nominated for the Susan Mann Dissertation Scholarship by the
Examining Committee, awarded yearly to outstanding students in their
final year of doctoral studies at York University.
2000
Nominated for the annual Michael Baptista Essay Prize which
recognizes York University graduate students’ outstanding scholarly
essays of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.

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1997 and 1998
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(SSHRCC)
Recipient of a $32,000 Doctoral Fellowship over two years.
1995
Entrance Graduate Scholarship, York University
In the amount of $3,400.
1994
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
In the amount of $12,000.
1993
Entrance Graduate Scholarship, University of Ottawa
In the amount of $3,000
SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Latin America and Caribbean Society of Ethnomusicology (LACSEM).
November 2011 to present
Administrator and moderator of LACSEM’s Facebook group. LACSEM is
a special interest group within the Society of Ethnomusicology.
International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
World Conference 2011
Volunteer with the organizing committee for the 2011 Conference in
St. Johns, Newfoundland.
• Led the search for a Toronto-based Cuban orchestra to perform
and participate in a workshop at the conference.
• Participated in the preparation of the grant proposal for the
Canada Arts Council and travel arrangements for the ten-
member orchestra.
• Accompanied the orchestra to St. Johns to act as an
intermediary and interpret between the orchestra members and
the organizers throughout their engagement.
• Prepared and facilitated the workshop.
Canadian Society for Traditional Music 2012
May 2012
Volunteer with the local arrangements committee of the Society’s
2012 Conference held in Toronto, Ontario.
Canadian Chapter of the International Association for the Study of
Popular Music (IASPM)
June 1998-May 2002
Member of the Executive Committee.

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Faculty of Graduate Studies Council
1998-99
Representative for the Graduate Music Students’ Association on the
Faculty of Graduate Studies Council.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
• American Anthropological Association
• Society for Ethnomusicology
• College Music Society
• Latin American Studies Association
• Canadian Society for Traditional Music

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REFERENCES
Dr. Jocelyne Guilbault
Associate Professor in Music
University of California-Berkeley
Music Department
104 Morrison Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-1200
Tel. office: (510) 642-2687; Fax: (510) 642-8480
Email: GUILBAULT@BERKELEY.EDU
Dr. Beverley Diamond
Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology
Memorial University
Department of Music
Arts and Culture Centre Annex
St. John’s, Newfoundland/Labrador
A1C 5S7
Tel: (709) 737-3701
Email: BDIAMOND@MUN.CA
Dr. Joy Cohnstaedt
Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar
Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
1 Humbercrest Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario
M6S 4K6
Tel.: (416) 766-8679
Email: WOLFECONE@BELLNET.CA