Music Department Faculty
David Garcia
Assistant Professor
Office: Hill Hall Annex 10
Email: daga@email.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-2093
David Garcia
(Assistant Professor) received
his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate
Center in 2003. He specializes in Latin American and Latino popular music. He
teaches undergraduate courses in music of Latin America
and world music and graduate seminars in ethnomusicology, music of the African
diaspora, and popular music. He also directs Charanga Carolina (MUSC 7E,
Section 4), which specializes in Cuban danzón and early salsa from New York City (http://music.unc.edu/ensembles/charanga/).
His publications include
Arsenio Rodriguez and the Transnational Flows of
Latin Popular Music (Temple University Press, 2006). He has done research
in New York City, Miami,
Los Angeles, Havana,
and Curaçao. His current research interests include early Latin jazz history
and Latin popular music and culture of the 1940s and 1950s.
