In Search of Tania Leon: Re-evaluating the Music Biography Genre Alejandro L. Madrid is a cultural theorist whose historical, ethnographic, and critical work focuses on music and expressive culture from Latin America and Latinos in the United States, especially Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Circum-Caribbean. Working at the intersection of musicology, ethnomusicology, and performance studies, Madrid’s work explores questions of transnationalism, diaspora, and migration; homophobia and constructions of masculinity; embodied culture; and historiography, narrative, and alternative ways of knowledge…