Heidi Feldman

Heidi Carolyn Feldman is a Visiting Scholar in History at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), an affiliated researcher at the Catholic University of Peru’s Institute of Ethnomusicology, and a past lecturer at UCSD, San Diego State University, Tulane University, and Soka University. Her first book, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) won the Woody Guthrie Book Prize (International Association for the Study of Popular Music-U.S.) and was published in Spanish translation in Peru in 2009. She is currently writing a book about Afro-Peruvian cultural icon Victoria Santa Cruz. Feldman has presented her research internationally and published in the journals Theatre Survey, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and e-misférica. She served as a Volume Editor for the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World from 2010 to 2017. Feldman earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA.