Abigail Carissa Lindo
- School of Music
Abigail Lindo is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology whose dissertation, “Azorean Acoustemologies: Gendered Postcolonial Musicking and Sonic Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Ponta Delgada,” focuses on ecotourism, the postcolonial imagination, gendered behaviors in music creation, and intersectional awareness in sonic engagement in the Azores – where she resided during the 2022-23 academic year on a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship. Within this work, Lindo interpolates the geographically and culturally specific ideas from works of Black feminist scholars into her ethnographic work to aid in a sociocultural critique of postcolonial sonic realities on the island. She recognizes the shifting definition of cultural identity in the Azores in response to globalization and contextualizes how understanding the colonial past transforms the geographical sounding and silence into sexualized and racialized realities. For more information about her research, click here.
Lindo is a Jamaican-born, vocalist, educator, creative, and social scientist whose academic interests include Black sonic expression and identity, Jamaican popular music and gender dynamics, the politics of community music-making, and Portuguese popular music consumption and festival culture in the Azores. She is a P.E.O. Scholar, SEC Emerging Scholar, and recent inductee of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at Yale. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, supported by funding from the University of Florida, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Fulbright Commission in Portugal. She has published work on Black music and visual culture, ethnographic fieldwork, and has multiple forthcoming publications relating to community music-making and womanist literature connected to the work of Black female vocalists. She is a former K-12 teacher and classically trained mezzo-soprano who is actively incorporating performance into her current dissertation work, among other creative approaches.
Website: abigaillindo.com