COORDINATOR, BRAZIL
MARIA ALICE VOLPE holds a Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin with the dissertation "Indianismo and Landscape in the Brazilian Age of Progress: Art Music from Carlos Gomes to Villa-Lobos, 1870s-1930s" (2001) and a Master's Degree in Musicology from the Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP, Brazil. She has received several research grants from Brazilian governmental foundations including the CNPq, FAPESP, and CAPES. Dr. Volpe is the Chair of Musicology at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ and is Head of the Graduate Program in Music at the Universidade de Brasília.
She was Assistant Editor (1999-2000) of the Latin American Music Review and is currently on the editorial board of the Revista Música em Contexto (Universidade de Brasília). She also serves as the Ad Hoc Consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education; and is a member of the Ministry of Culture National Council-CNIC; member of the Board of Consultants of the Brazilian Musical Bibliography Project of the Academia Brasileira de Música; and member of RILM's National Committee-Brazil.
Dr. Volpe is co-author with Régis Duprat of Recitativo e Aria para José Mascarenhas, a contributor to the new edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and has published many articles on Brazilian music in national and international publications. These include the book chapter "Representações musicais do IV centenário do descobrimento do Brasil," in Sonoridades luso-afro-brasileiras; and articles such as "Análise musical e contexto: propostas rumo à crítica cultural," Debates (2004); "José Rodrigues Barbosa: questões identitárias na crítica musical," Brasiliana (2007); and "Por uma nova musicologia," Música em Contexto (2007). Her ongoing resarch project focuses on "150 Years of Musicology in Brazil and the New Musicologies: Transdisciplinary Reflections for the Brazilian University."