Dr. Sydney Hutchinson - Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

• Seit November 2025: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Staatlichen Institut für Musikforschung
• 2020-2025: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft, Popular Music Studies
• 2019-2020: Vertretungsprofessorin für Musikethnologie, Goethe-Universität
• 2017-2021: Associate Professor for Music History and Cultures, Syracuse University
• 2010-2017: Assistant Professor for Music History and Cultures, Syracuse University
• 2009-2010: Humboldt-Stipendiatin, Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
• 2008: Ph.D, Music (Ethnomusicology), New York University
• 2002: M.A., Ethnomusicology/Folklore, Indiana University
• 1996: B.Music, Piano Performance, University of Arizona

Monographien, Herausgeberschaften und Übersetzungen

• Queering Partner Dance (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), hrsg. mit Val Meneau
• Tigres de otro pelaje: Interpretando el género en la música dominicana (Übersetzung von Tigers of a different stripe. Santo Domingo, Ministry of Culture/Instituto de Estudios Caribeños, 2024)
• Made in Saturn, von Rita Indiana, Übersetzung von Sydney Hutchinson. (And Other Stories, 2020)
• FOCUS: Music of the Caribbean (Routledge, 2019)
• Rhythm and Power: Performing Salsa in Puerto Rican and Latino Communities. (CENTRO Press, 2017), hrsg. mit Derrick León Washington und Priscilla Renta.
• Tigers of a Different Stripe: The Performance of Gender in Dominican Music. (University of Chicago Press, 2016) (*Society for Ethnomusicology, Marcia Herndon Award)
• Salsa World: A Global Dance in Local Contexts, Herausgeberin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012).
• From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007) (*Society for Dance History Scholars, De La Torre Bueno Book Prize, Special Citation)

• “Von Haus zu Haus: Kurt Reinhard, Erich Stockmann, and the Berlin Phonogram Archive in the shadow of the Berlin wall.” 2025. Twentieth-Century Music, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572225100108
• “Triangle or onion? The Bermudian gombey tradition at the crossroads of the Black and Red Atlantics.” Journal of Festive Studies, forthcoming
• “Cooperation, competition, and Cold War thinking in German music studies of the 1950s and 1960s.” 2024. Die Musikforschung 77(4): 311-332.
• “Norteño corporeality: Body, gender, sound, and economy in commercialised norteño music videos.” 2022. Popular Music and Society 45(3):317-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2043427
• “Dancing lo típico: A choreomusical perspective on merengue.” 2020. World of Music (new series) 9(2):89-108.
• “Beyond the binary of choreomusicology: Moving from ethnotheory towards local ontologies.”2020. Co-authored with Made Mantle Hood, World of Music (new series) 9(2):69-88.
• “Asian fury: A tale of race, rock, and air guitar.” 2016. Ethnomusicology 60(3): 411-433.
• “Entangled rhythms on a conflicted island: Digging up the buried histories of Dominican folk music.” 2016. Resonancias 20(39): 139-154.
• “Putting some air on their chests: Movement and masculinity in competitive air guitar.” 2014. World of music (new series) 3(2):79-103.
• “A limp with rhythm: Convergent choreographies in Black Atlantic time.” 2012. Yearbook for Traditional Music 44:87-108.
• “Típico, folklórico, or popular? Musical categories, place, and identity in a transnational listening community.” 2011. Popular Music 30(2):245-262.
• “Introduction,” Special Issue, “Latin American Dance in Transnational Contexts.” 2009. Journal of American Folklore 122(486).
• “Becoming the tíguera: Female accordionists in Dominican merengue típico.” 2008. World of Music, 50(3): 37-56.
• “Merengue típico: Transnational regionalism and class transformations in a neotraditional Dominican music.” 2006. Ethnomusicology 50(1):37-72.
• “Mambo on 2: The birth of a new form of dance in New York City.” 2004. CENTRO Journal 16(2):109-137.

• „Sonic solidarities: Latin American political song in East Germany.” In Bearbeitung. Music, culture, and politics in Latin America, eds. Christian Spencer and Laura Jordan. Routledge.
• Kommentar zu “Aspekte zum Problem der musikologischen Ethnographie“ von Max Peter Baumann. (i.V.) Umfang, Methode und Ziel. Eine kommentierte Edition von Konzeptionen der Musikwissenschaft, hrsg. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann. Kassel und Berlin: Bärenreiter/Metzler.

• “Salsa in India: A (queer) dance by chance,” mit Subhashish Mandal und “Queering partner dance: An introduction,” mit Val Meneau. (i.V.) Queering Partner Dance, hrsg. Val Meneau und Sydney Hutchinson. Bloomsbury.

• “Ghost transnationalisms, or how buried transborder histories are embodied in music and dance (with examples from the Dominican Republic and the United States).” 2025. Transnational Humans and Transnationalism in the Humanities: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, hrsg. Max Paul Friedman, Stefan Rinke, and Nuria Vilanova. University of New Mexico Press.

• “Erinnerungskultur or Vergessenskultur? Merengue, monuments, and memory in the Dominican Republic.” 2024. Music and Memory, hrsg. Michael Fuhr, Olms, 117-137.

• “On carnivals and capitalism: Performing neoliberal politics in a Dominican carnival.” 2024. The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, hrsg. Lauren Griffith and David Syring. New York: Routledge.
• “On social dancing and social movements: Salsa and resistance.” 2017. Rhythm and power: Performing salsa in Latino communities, hrsg. Derrick León Washington, Priscilla Renta, und Sydney Hutchinson. New York: CENTRO Press.
• “Una propuesta transgenérica de la música de Rita Indiana: El potencial transformador de sus canciones y videoclips, y el compromiso de leer/escuchar ‘entre líneas/pa’l la’o’.” 2017. Rita Indiana: Archivos, hrsg. Fernanda Bustamante E. Santo Domingo/Berlin: Cielo Naranja, 351-385
• “Merengue on the move: Making music, place, and community in the típico world.” 2016. Made in Latin America: Studies in Popular Music, hrsg. Christian Spencer und Julio Mendívil. New York: Routledge, 113-124
• “Outsider, insider, and imagined tourists: Some notes on musical and cultural tourism in the Dominican Republic.” 2014. Sun, Sea, and Sound: Reflections on Music and Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean, hrsg. Daniel Neely und Timothy Rommen, 151-178
• “Dancing in place: An introduction” und “What’s in a number? From local nostalgia to global marketability in New York salsa.” 2013. Salsa World, hrsg. Sydney Hutchinson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1-25, 26-45.
• “No ma’ se oye el fuinfuán: The noisy accordion in the Dominican Republic.” 2012. The Accordion in the Americas – Klezmer, Polka, Tango, Zydeco and More! hrsg. Helena Simonett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 249-267
• “Breaking borders / quebrando fronteras: Dancing in the borderscape.” 2011. Transnational Encounters. Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border, hrsg. Alejandro Madrid. Oxford University Press.
• “Places of the body: Corporeal displacement, misplacement, and replacement in music and dance research.” 2010. Music and displacement: Diasporas, mobilities, and dislocations, hrsg. Erik Levi und Florian Scheding. Scarecrow Press, 155-180
• “The Ballet Folklórico de México and the construction of the Mexican nation through dance.” 2009. n Dancing across borders: Danzas y bailes mexicanos, hrsg. Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Brenda Romero, und Norma Cantú. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 206-225.

• Popscriptum, “Intersections in the Interregnum” (mit Stefanie Alisch und Shanti Suki Osman), vol. 13 (2025) 
  https://www.musikundmedien.hu-berlin.de/de/musikwissenschaft/pop/popscriptum-1/intersections-in-the-interregnum
• World of Music (new series), Sonderausgabe: Music, movement, and masculinities (mit Marcia Ostashewski), vol. 2 no. 2 (2014)
• Journal of American Folklore, Sonderausgabe: Latin American Dance (mit Katey Borland), vol. 122 no. 486 (2009)
• Yearbook of Traditional Music, Buchrezensionsredakteurin (2011-2016)

• “Música de la Isla,” Edis Sánchez. Pantopia Music (2023): Kuratorin, Übersetzerin, Verfasserin
  https://pantopia-music.org/en/album/musica-de-la-isla/
• “La India Canela: Merengue típico of the Dominican Republic.” Smithsonian Folkways Records (2008): Koproduzentin, Verfasserin  
  https://folkways.si.edu/la-india-canela/merengue-tipico-from-the-dominican-republic/caribbean-latin-world/music/album/smithsonian 

• “Musikalische Internationalismus”, Kuratorin für Teil der Ausstellung „Über Grenzen,“ Humboldt-Forum (2024-2025)
• “Fusión Caribe,” Kokuratorin, La Casita Cultural Center, Syracuse University (2017)
• “Dominican Republic,” Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (Filmmaterial und Informationen über Instrumentenbau; fortlaufend)
• “A tres bandas. Mestizaje, sincretismo e hibridación en el espacio sonoro hispanoamericano (s. XVI-s. XX)”, Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX)/ Museo de Antioquia, Colombia (Beraterin/Mitwirkende, 2010)

• “Playing the Archive” Podcast, https://blubrry.com/3887913/
• Youtube/Tiktok/Instagram Videoreihe, “Second World Music” https://www.youtube.com/@secondworldmusic9159
• “Second World Music” Homepage und Blog
  http://secondworldmusic.wordpress.com 

Eingeladen

2024: “Performing socialist solidarity: Mass culture, mass media, and mass sentiment in East Germany.” Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover, Mai

2023: “GDR Radio’s International Connections Department.” Tagung, Sound and Vision: 100 years of the BBC in Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Centre for British Studies, Juni

2022: “Beyond Lead and Follow: Gender Roles, Dance, and Society from Colonized Latin America to Cold War Europe (and Beyond).” Keynote, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Fachgruppensymposium Deutsch-Ibero-Amerikanische Musikbeziehung/Gender, September

2022: “A tale of two Germanys: Music and music collections across borders during German separation.” Tagung, North Korean music library in the National Gugak Center and prospects for its use. National Gugak Center, Seoul (Zoom), December

2021: “Saturnalia: On music, translation, and Rita Indiana’s Made in Saturn.” Tagung “Music and Translation”, Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Oktober

2021: “Yodel is as yodel does,” Symposium “Musik als Wissensmachine” (online), Humboldt-Universität, März

2019: “US Dominican Women: Music and Legacy,” Podiumsgespräch, Dominican Studies Institute (City University of New York), November 

2019: “Gendered genres: The performing body in competitive air guitar and Dominican merengue típico.” Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft, Gastvortragsreihe, Humboldt-Universität, Juli

2018: “Gombeys, goombays, and guloyas: A view from the Hispanic Caribbean.” Bermuda Gombey Festival, Hamilton, Bermuda, Oktober

2018: “A sea of sounds and silences: Black Atlantic politics and new identities in Dominican pop.” Goethe Universität, Juli

2017: “Salsa and/as resistance.” Bard College, November 

2017: “Listening to Rita Indiana: Gender, music, and performance at the crossroads.” William P. Tolley University Faculty Dinner Forum, Syracuse University, September

2017: “On social dancing and social movements: Salsa and resistance.” Keynote, Symposium When the People Dance: Salsa, Power, and Performance in New York City, Museum of the City of New York, September

2015: “Entangled rhythms on a conflicted island: Digging up the buried histories of Dominican music.” Symposium “Music of the Americas,” Cornell University, September 

2015: “Asian fury: A tale of race, rock, and air guitar.” Brown University, Music Department, Februar

2014: “A tigress of a different stripe: Performing gender in Dominican music from Fefita to Rita.” Universität Göttingen, ZTMK Gastvortragsreihe, Juli

2014: “A tigress of a different stripe.” Kolloquium, Princeton University, Music Department, März

2012: “Con merengue y con bachata.” Podiumsgespräch, Sixth Annual Dominican Students Conference, Brown University, April 

2012: “Música folklórica en Samaná.” Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominikanische Republik, März

2011: “¿Fue el merengue típico el primer jazz dominicano? Un análisis de técnicas compartidas.” Plenarsitzung, Música, Identidad, y Cultura en el Caribe (MIC) IV, Santiago, Dominikanische Republik, April 

2009: Colombian vallenato, World Cinema Fund Spotlight, Filmvorführung, “Los Viajes del Viento,” Berlin, November

2025: “Weltmusik und Zweite-Welt-Musikwissenschaft: Das Ostberliner Festival des Politischen Liedes als Brücke zwischen den Blöcken.“ Jahrestagung, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), Weimar, Oktober

2025: “Global pop and the Eastern Bloc: Rene Dubianski’s life and music.” International Council for Traditional Music and Dance (ICTMD), Global History of Music study group, Berlin, September

2024: “Tanzt die Revolution! East Germans and Cuban dance during the early Cold War (1955-1965).” Jahrestagung, Society for Ethnomusicology (online). 

2024: “Cooperating over the wall: Kurt Reinhard, Erich Stockmann, and the Berlin Phonogram Archive in the Cold War.” Tagung: Cosmopolitan, International, Global: Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963, Humboldt-Forum, 3-5 Juli.

2022: “’All the young people are dancing’: Socialism vs. social dance in the German Democratic Republic.” Poster, International Council for Traditional Music. Ethnochoreology Study Group (online), 1 August.

2022: “Whose ‘world music’? Popular music and internationalism between Latin America and the German Democratic Republic.” Jahrestagung, International Council for Traditional Music, Lissabon, 22 Juli

2021: Choreomusical research perspectives,“ Gesprächsrunde, Jahrestagung, Society for Ethnomusicology (online), 28 Oktober

2021: “Erinnerungskultur oder Vergessenskultur? Music, memory, and monuments in the Dominican Republic.” International Council for Traditional Music – Deutschland, Berlin, Humboldt-Forum, 8 Oktober 

2020: “Bermuda gombey (re)connections: Recovering indigeneity in the Black Atlantic.” Tagung: Racialisation and publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora conference, Oxford University, 27 Juni

2021-2027: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft “eigene Stelle” 

2019: Thyssen Foundation, Reisestipendium 

2018: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Return Fellowship 

2013-2014: American Association of University Women, Forschungsstipendium

2010: Grammy Foundation, Preservation Planning für die Sammlung Fradique Lizardo, Centro León, Dominikanische Republik (Hauptautorin)

2009-2010: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Postdoktorandenstipendium

2008: Nadia and Nicholas Nahumck Fellowship, Society for Ethnomusicology 

2008: City Institute of New York, Dominican Studies Institute Summer Research Fellowship

2006: Library of Congress, American Folklife Center, Parsons Fellowship

2003-2008: New York University, MacCracken Fellowship 

1998-2000: Indiana University, Folklore Institute, Mentored Research Fellowship

2025: Society for Ethnomusicology, Bruno Nettl Preis (Honorable Mention) für “Cooperation, competition, and Cold War thinking in German music studies of the 1950s-1960s”

2017: Society for Ethnomusicology, Marcia Herndon Buchpreis für Tigers of a Different Stripe

2016: Syracuse University, Judith Seinfeld Distinguished Faculty Fellow 

2016: Samuel Claro Valdés Preis fürlateinamerikanische Musikwissenschaft (verliehen von der Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 

2010: Society for Ethnomusicology, Marcia Herndon Artikel Preis für “Becoming the tíguera”

2008: Society of Dance History Scholars, De La Torre Bueno Buchpreis (Special Citation) für From Quebradita to Duranguense

• Bücher: Oxford University Press, University of Rochester Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Mississippi Press, Routledge
• Artikeln: Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Latin American Music Review, Dance Research Journal, Women and Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, Latin American Research Review, Latino Studies, Atlantic Studies, Anthropologica, El Oído Pensante, Music and Politics, Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana
• Forschungsanträge: European Council, Research Council of Norway, Austrian Science Fund, Research Council of Hungary

• Aktuell: SOAS Studies in Music (Routledge); Zeitschrift für Ethnologie
• Ehemalig: Voices: The Journal for New York Folklore (New York Folklore Society); Pantopia Music (Ethnologisches Museum/Staatstheater Karlsruhe); Dominican Studies Institute; New York State Council on the Arts (Folk Arts Division); El Oído Pensante