Cristina Magaldi is Professor Emerita at Towson University and holds degrees from the University of Brasília, the University of Reading, England, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on music during the 19th and 20th centuries, Latin American cultures, globalization, and cosmopolitanism. She is the author of Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu (2004) and her publications have appeared in Popular Music, Latin American Music Review, Musical Quarterly, among others.