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Ketty Wong

Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology

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Ketty Wong is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist specializing in Ecuadorian and Latin American music. She received a bachelor's degree in piano from the Conservatorio Nacional Antonio Neumane in Guayaquil, Ecuador; a master's degree in musicology from the Conservatory Chaikovsky in Moscow; and a master's degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her Ph. D. in ethnomusicology in the spring of 2007 at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation focused on changing perceptions of the Ecuadorian national identity in the aftermath of the rural-to-urban migration of the 1970s and the international migration of the late 1990s. Her research interests include Latin American art, folk, and traditional music, nationalisms, identity, migration, popular music studies, and the Ecuadorian pasillo.

Ketty Wong is the author of Luis Humberto Salgado: Un Quijote de la Música (2004). Her work has been published in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Latin American Music Review, Boletín Música de la Casa de las América s (Havana), Cuadernos de Nación (Bogotá), Revista Ecuador Debate (Quito), and the Virtual Library of the Banco Central del Ecuador.

She has presented papers and lectures at conferences in the United States and Latin America. She has taught courses on Western European and Latin American music at the University of Texas at Austin, and in several schools of music in Ecuador: Conservatorio Nacional Antonio Neumane, Sociedad Filarmónica de Quito, and Fundación Zaldumbide-Rosales.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including scholarships from the Fulbright Commission and the ex-USSR government, the Delta Kappa Gamma International Fellowship, the Dean's Graduate Fellowship of the College of Fine Arts, and the Cullen Continuing Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin. She was the Assistant Editor of the Latin American Music Review (1997-1999).