Luis Gimenez Amoros
University of Western Cape, Cape Town
Ethnomusicology
Period of stay: October 2023 – January 2024
Education and professional career
Luis Gimenez Amoros has conducted research and lectured in ethnomusicology on four continents, and is an international performer and the composer of sixteen solo albums. His academic research has focused on music and refugees in the Sahara Desert (for his 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 tetralogy album ´The Unknown Spanish Levant´ (recorded in Egypt, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, South Africa and Spain). [https://luisgimenezamoros.com/]
Research Focus
- Music and refugee studies
- History of transcultural music practices
- Intangible heritage
- Sound archives
