Noel Allende Goitía

Noel Allende-Goitía is an independent scholar and researcher and an Associate Re-searcher with the Colectivo de Estudios Musicales de Puerto Rico. He teaches music research methodology and writing skills at the Armoniarte Escuela Superior de Arte, in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico. At the Metropolitan Campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, he created and coordinated the Puerto Rican Music Studies and Research Center, the the music graduate program and a minor in Music History and Anthropology. He has a B.M. in Voice from the Music Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico (1986) and a M.A. in History from the University of Puerto Rico (1992). He made a postgraduate study in Latin American Musicology at the Center of Studies and Development on Cuban Music (1992), in Cuba, with Zoila Gómez and graduated (2000) from Michigan State University with a Ph. D. in Music with a major in composition, with Mark Sullivan, and a minor in ethnomusicology, with Michael Largey, and worked as a fellow at the African Diaspora Research Project under the leadership of the late Dr. Ruth S. Hamilton. Allende-Goitía has published books in Puerto Rico music’s social and cultural his-tory, music instruction and music historiography. His book "Las músicas de los Puerto Ricos: Una breve introducción a su estudio," is in use at the Music Conservatory of Puerto Rico and other universities in the island. His works in cultural and social history of music have been presented at national and international conferences in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Spain, the United States, US Virgin Islands, Mexico, and Ghana.