Sydney Hutchinson
Sydney Hutchinson is research associate in music history and theory at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung in Berlin and instructor in popular music at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has published five books and numerous articles on Latin American music and dance, including the award-winning ethnography Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music, based on a decade of field research. Currently she leads a project investigating musical, choreographic, and musicological exchange between Latin America and East Germany (http://secondworldmusic.wordpress.com).