Noel Allende Goitía

Noel Allende-Goitía is an independent scholar and researcher. At the Metropolitan Campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, he coordinated the Puerto Rican Music Studies and Research Center and the music graduate program. He has a B.M. in Voice from the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico and an M.A. in History from the University of Puerto Rico. He made a postgraduate study in Musicology at the Center of Studies and Development on Cuban Music (1992), in Cuba, with Zoila Gómez. He holds a Ph. D in Music with a major in composition and a minor in Ethnomusicology from Michigan State University. He was a research fellow at the African Diaspora Research Project under the late Dr. Ruth S. Hamilton leadership. Allende-Goitía has published books on Puerto Rico music’s social and cultural history, music instruction, and music historiography. He has presented his works at national and international conferences in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Spain, the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, and Ghana.