Sarah C Town
Overview
I am an interdisciplinary music/ dance scholar with a research focus on the histories, aesthetics, and circulation of Cuban popular dance culture. My Writing 101 courses at Duke include La gozadera: Music/Dance/Emotion and Writing Through Dialogue and Improvisation. My current writing projects address dialogue and interaction in contemporary Cuban jazz; music, dance, and social spaces in the circulation of timba culture; and the aesthetics and possibilities of Afro-Cuban dance techniques. Alongside my scholarship, I teach and perform Cuban popular music and social dance, and Brazilian capoeira.
Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
Travel Grant awarded by Florida International University Díaz-Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection (2012)
Town, Sarah. “"Timbeando en Nueva York": Cuban Timba Takes Root Abroad.” Ethnomusicology, vol. 63, no. 1, University of Illinois Press, 2019, pp. 105–105. Manual, doi:10.5406/ethnomusicology.63.1.0105. Full Text
Town, Sarah. “Cuba dances: Popular dance, documentary film and the construction of the revolutionary state.” Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, vol. 14, no. 2, Intellect, June 2017, pp. 171–91. Crossref, doi:10.1386/slac.14.2.171_1. Full Text