Abigail C. Lindo
interdisciplinary researcher • artist/scholar • Educator
I am a Jamaican-born researcher of sound, media, and the people that give it meaning.
I explore Afrodiasporic, Caribbean, and Lusophone music and culture.
I am Assistant Professor of Digital Music Cultures at University College Dublin.
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Abigail Carissa Lindo
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About
I am a Jamaican-born researcher of music, sound, and culture.
I research Afrodiasporic, Caribbean, and Lusophone music and culture.
I am Assistant Professor of Digital Music Cultures at University College Dublin.
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Dr. Abigail C. Lindo is an interdisciplinary researcher of sound and culture, with research interests including Afrodiasporic sonic expression and identity; Jamaican popular music; the politics of community music-making; gender and feminist studies; and Portuguese popular music consumption and festival culture in the Azores - which connects to her first book project. Lindo completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Florida in 2024, also receiving graduate certificates in modern European studies, instructional design, and gender and development. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in music at New College of Florida and her Master of Music degree in music education at the University of Florida (UF) while working as a K-12 educator in Southwest Florida.Lindo has published articles on audiovisual culture and Black Lives Matter; identity in ethnographic research; and Black female presence in American popular music. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, supported by funding from the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Fulbright Commission, and various departments at UF. Lindo spent the 22-23 academic year in Portugal completing fieldwork as a Fulbright Fellow, documenting musical practices and instructing students in language and culture at the University of the Azores (UAc).Lindo has taught courses on Black popular musics, pedagogy, and ethnomusicological approaches. She aspires to positively impact academia by instructing courses that blend interests in sonic culture (and sound studies), Black (eco)feminism, and education, and through the production of accessible public-facing research (primarily in the form of media) pertaining to sociocultural realities that permeate societal and political discourse through sound.
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Curriculum vitae
Abigail Carissa Lindo
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About • CV • Research • Media • Blog • Resources • Contact
Curriculum vitae
Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology 2024
University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
Dissertation: “Azorean Acoustemologies:
Gendered Postcolonial Musicking and Sonic Eco-cosmopolitanism in Ponta Delgada”
Committee: Sarah Politz, Imani Mosley, Silvio dos Santos, Paul Richards, and Richard Kernaghan
Graduate Certificates: Gender and Development; Modern European Studies; Instructional DesignM.M. in Music Education 2017
University of Florida: Gainesville, FL
Thesis: “The Evolving Musical Preferences of Elementary School Students”
Advisor: Richard S. WebbB.A. in Music 2012
New College of Florida
Thesis: “Genre vs Individualism: Claude Debussy and Parisian Artistic Consumption”
Advisor: Maribeth Clark________________________Current Research Topics
• Race and Gender in Cape Verdean Music in the Azores
• The Speculative Resistance of Voice in Quare Jamaican Dancehall
• Tucson's Black RenaissanceOther courses I may teach ---
• "The Sonic Ethnographic: Techniques and Technology"
• "Black Technoculturality and Postmodernity"
• "Home Girls and Hip Hop: Black Feminism and American Popular Music"
Click the images above to view the videos or follow the links below to access additional content.• Muito Beleza Podcast Series •
• Additional Muito Beleza Episode on SMT (the Society for Music Theory) Pod(cast) •
• Azorean Acoustemologies, Part 1: {Hybrid} Fieldwork and Presence •
• Azorean Acoustemologies Website •
• @ethnowithabby on Instagram •
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Resources
AMS Awards/Grants
Funding opportunities provided by the American Musicological Society (AMS) for graduate students, faculty members, and independent music researchers.ASA Grants
Funding opportunities provided by the American Studies Association (ASA) for graduate students, faculty members, and independent music researchers.Black Doctoral Network
A collective of Black and Latinx academics and professionals empowering other diverse scholars.Black Women PhDs
A site offering advice and encouragement for Black women considering a doctoral degree.NAfME Scholarship List
A compiled list of scholarships made by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) for music students who are seeking financial assistance to attend college.Project Spectrum
Coalition of graduate students in ethnomusicology, musicology, and music theory striving to improve academia by confronting/challenging discrimination and injustice to improve equity in their respective fields.SEM Awards/Grants
Funding opportunities provided by the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) for graduate students, faculty members, and independent music researchers.The Professor is In
Career tips and additional resources for academic professionals by Karen Kelsey. Consider purchasing her book, which is a useful resource throughout the Ph.D. journey into the professoriate.
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Abigail Carissa Lindo
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Research
Current Research Interests• African American Sonic Aesthetics in the 20th & 21st Century• Music Festival Culture and Community Music Making• Portuguese Folk, Religious, and Vernacular Music• Black Sound Objects, Tech, and Embodiment• Practices of Sonic (Self)Care and Nurturing• Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies• Contemporary Jamaican Popular Music• Ecomusicology and Ecocriticism
Existing Publications• Bearer of All Things: Black Women's Voices in 20th Century American Popular Music• “Four Women,” (Three Songs): Nina Simone’s Voice (as Sound Object) in Global Hip-Hop Sampling• Tremor’s Ethos of Sustainability: Theorizing Sonic Eco-cosmopolitanism• Research Realities in Ethnography and the Poetry of Alternative Identities• Beyond Black and White: Humanizing Black Bodies Through Music Videos in the BLM Era• Review of Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance
*You can glimpse other ongoing works by visiting the blog page.
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Teaching
Upcoming Courses
• "Music and Place"
• "African American Music Globally"
• "Urban Sounds, Urban Locales: Sound and Environmental Knowledge"
• "Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music"Courses Taught
• "The Rhythm and Blues Tradition"
• "Cultural Studies of American Musics"
• "Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule" (Weekly Discussant)
• "Sounding the Alarm: Music & the Environment" (Weekly Discussant)
• "Ethnomusicology in the K-12 Classroom"
• "That's the Joint: Hip Hop History and Culture"
• "African American Popular Music in the K-12 Classroom"
• "Jazz, Hip-Hop, and African Culture" (course co-designer)
• "Gender, Race, and Colonial Legacies in Iberian Popular Music" (Designed)
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Media [and Performance]
Beyond Black and White
Simone on the Keys
Tuscan's "Black Renaissance"
Verzuz and Black Musical Nostalgia
Trying to Tremor
The Black Atlantic & AA Popular Music
@dr.lindo.tho on Instagram
Coming Soon
Muito Beleza Podcast
Azorean Acoustemologies
SMT-Pod Muito Beleza Bonus Episode
AA Mini Doc Episode 1
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Ethno with abby
This is a space where I explore the research topics I am working on in a more informal space. I provide glimpses into my research interests spanning a diversity of topics, from queer Fado to popular music pedagogy.Current Topics
• Fado Bicha and Ideas of Nation in Portugal
• Jamaican Pentecostal Breath and COVID-19 Grief
• Nina Simone Sampled Across Cultures
• Versus and Black Musical Nostalgia
• Sounding the Black Atlantic in Popular Music
• Trying to Tremor: Initial Fieldwork Reflections
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