Luis Gimenez Amoros
Luis Gimenez Amoros is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Global South Studies Center located at the University of Cologne. Previously, he 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 (more than 30 publications) focuses on music and refugees in the Sahara Desert (doctoral dissertation), sound repatriation and revitalization of historical recordings from African sound archives and southeastern Spanish cancioneros: 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).
Contact: lgimenez[at]uni-koeln.de | worldmusicspirit[at]gmail.com