The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development – UP Center for Ethnomusicology proudly welcomes its new Director from the UP College of Music – Musicology Department, Dr. Lisa Veronica D. Decenteceo!
Ms. Lisa is an ethnomusicologist who studies the intricate cultural politics of indigeneity and its musical renderings in public and intimate settings. Affect theory, sound studies, the cultural-intellectual history of ethnomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, disability studies in music, and translations of anti-racism are among her other current research interests. Through an ongoing collaboration with communities and individuals based in various locations of the Cordillera region, Ms. Lisa has written her dissertation “From Being to Becoming: Protests, Festivals, and Musical Mediations of Igorot Indigeneity” and earned a PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in world performance studies from the same university.
Ms. Lisa has presented her work at conferences by the International Council for Traditional Music, Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has taught Philippine music literature at the University of the Philippines, and for courses on US American music history and popular music, Western music history, musicology, and gamelan at the University of Michigan.
