Jaime Bofill Calero

Jaime Bofill Calero received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Music Theory from the University of Arizona. Bofill Calero currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, where he also directs the Instituto de Investigación Musical de Puerto Rico y del Caribe (IMPCA) and the academic journal Musiké. In 2014 he was awarded the Otto Mayer Serra Award for his article, “Bomba, danza calipso y merengue: creación del espacio social en las Fiestas de Santiago Apostól de Loiza” (Latin American Music Review). His short documentary “Sounds of the Street Vendors, Havana Cuba” (2015) received various distinctions in film festivals worldwide, and is currently working on another audiovisual project “Bajando por la montaña: Ecology of Gaita Music”. Bofill’s interdisciplinary research is currently focused on creating awareness about the relationships between music, sound and the environment. In 2019 he contributed articles to the special edition of Musiké dedicated to Hurricane María and Climate Change titled: “Conciencias Sonoras: Music, Art and Climate Change-An Introduction” and “Bajando por la montaña: Ecology of Colombian Gaita Music”. His articles “Creative Processes in Improvising Jíbaro Décima” as well as “Gaita, ecología y la diversidad biocultural del Caribe colombiano” are both forthcoming in edited volumes.