Hannah Junco (pronounced hoon-coh) is a first-year graduate student in Ethnomusicology at UPenn's Department of Music Studies. Hannah's areas of focus are Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America. Her topics of interest are sacred music, transcendence, spiritual tourism, cross-cultural exchange, and cultural politics.
She is also a classical pianist who was formerly the director and arranger of Classical Unleashed, a fusion of classical melodies and Afro-Latin grooves.
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
- Masters in Musicology
- Area of focus: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topics: cultural politics, Jewish studies, diasporic studies, intra-generational trauma, community building, Marxist-Leninist theory, dance and movement.
- Master's Thesis: "Rikudim in Havana: Cultural Politics of Dance in Cuban Synagogues"
Frost School of Music, University of Miami
- Bachelor's in Piano Performance
- Studio of Kevin Kenner and Tian Ying
- Minor in Classics/Greco-Roman Studies
Sacred Music
Diasporic Studies
Transcendence
Cultural Politics
Intra-Generational Trauma
Cross-Cultural Exchange
"Conjuring in the Concert Hall: Pedríto Martínez's Batá Drumming in Wynton Marsalis' Ochas Concert," in Theology and Protest Music by Jonathan Harwell and Heidi Altman, 2023.