Ketty Wong
Ketty Wong-Cruz joined the KU faculty in August 2006, having taught previously at the University of Texas at Austin and in her home country Ecuador. She received her Ph. D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin with a dissertation on how urban popular music has constructed varied perceptions of Ecuadorian national identity. She also holds a master’s degree in ethnomusicology from UT Austin and a master's in musicology from the Moscow Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky. Her research interests focus on Latin American art, folk, and traditional music, nationalisms, identity, migration, and popular music. She has conducted short and extended fieldwork research in Ecuador, Peru, Spain, and New York.
Prof. Wong-Cruz is the author of Luis Humberto Salgado: Un Quijote de la Música (2004) and co-author of Corsino Durán: Un trabajador del pentagrama musical (1993). She has written articles and reviews for Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Latin American Music Review, Worlds of Music, Boletín Música de la Casa de las Américas (Havana), Cuadernos de Nación (Bogotá), Revista Ecuador Debate (Quito), and the Virtual Library of the Banco Central del Ecuador. She is currently working on her book Whose National Music? Changing Perceptions of Ecuadorian National Identity in the Twentieth Century, which examines Ecuadorians popular music in the aftermath of the rural-to-urban migration of the 1970s and the international migration of the late 1990s.
She has presented papers and lectures at conferences in the United States, Canada, and Latin America, including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the Association of Latin American Studies, the International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Casa de las Americas Coloquio de Musicología, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Quito), and University of Cuenca.
Prof. Wong-Cruz has taught in various music institutions in Ecuador, including the Conservatorio Nacional Antonio Neumane, Sociedad Filarmónica de Quito, Fundación Zaldumbide-Rosales, Municipio Metropolitano de Quito, and Banco Central del Ecuador.
She was the Assistant Editor of the Latin American Music Review (1997-1999). She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including scholarships from the Fulbright Commission in Ecuador, the ex-USSR government, the Delta Kappa Gamma International Fellowship, the Dean's Graduate Fellowship of the College of Fine Arts, and the Cullen Continuing Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin.
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