Principal Investigator
Silvia Martinez holds a tenured position as Professor Titular–Serra Húnter Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Her teaching activity has become increasingly international, with lectures delivered in France, Portugal, Austria, Uruguay, Mexico, and the United States. Her research output includes more than fifty publications, comprising monographs, journal articles, and book chapters. Notable works include Made in Spain. Studies in Spanish Popular Music (Routledge, 2013); contributions to The Singer-Songwriter in Europe (Ashgate, 2016), Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sounds (Routledge, 2003), and Recent Trends and New Directions in Ethnomusicology (Shaker, 2019). Recent articles (2020, 2022) present fieldwork on folk and popular music in Spain with a strong gender perspective, published in TRANS-Transcultural Music Review, Volume, and Popular Music & Society. She is co-editor of Resistencias Musicales. Ensayos sobre memoria, raza y prácticas queer (2026), Approaches to African Music (2006), and Voces e imágenes de la etnomusicología actual (2004), and author of Enganxats al heavy. Cultura, música i transgressió (1999). Her research has been presented at more than 40 national and international conferences. She has extensive experience in academic leadership over the past 25 years. She founded IASPM-España, serving as President (1997–2003), and later presided over SIBE–Sociedad de Etnomusicología (2006–2010). This led to her appointment as General Secretary of IASPM’s Executive Committee (2017–2019).