Luis Achondo
Assistant Professor
Ethnomusicology and Musicology
B.M. (UC Chile)
M.A. (UC Chile)
M.A. (Brown University)
Ph.D. (Brown University)
lachondoparra@mun.ca
Room: SN-1047-A
(709) 864-3984
Luis Achondo is Assistant Professor at 糖心视频 University. He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Brown University and has previously held postdoctoral positions at Case Western Reserve University and Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile. His research focuses on Latin American expressive cultures in contexts of violence and precarity.
Drawing on ethnographic material from long-term fieldwork in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, his first book, The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football (Wesleyan University Press, 2025), examines how sound mediates (trans)local and necropolitical relations among football fans in the Latin American Southern Cone. His second book project explores how anthropogenic violence has altered how sound coordinates ecological relations among the Mapuche鈥攖he largest indigenous nation in the Southern Cone.
In addition, he is a guitarist with two decades of experience performing classical, avant-garde, and Latin American popular music. His musical background informs an ongoing side project on the history and politics of the guitar.
His projects have been generously funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Tinker Foundation, and Chile鈥檚 National Agency for Research and Development. His work has been published in edited volumes, the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Twentieth-Century Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Sound Studies, Soccer and Society, Journal of Society for American Music, Journal of Musicological Research, and Resonancias.