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Abigail C. Lindo
Assistant Professor
she/her
431 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd S
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Afrodiasporic Musicking
- Lusophone Music Cultures
- Caribbean Music Cultures
- Community Music Making
- Ecofeminism & Ecomusicology
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Archipelagic Studies
- Performance Studies
- Cultural Geography
- Sound Studies
Education
- PhD, University of Florida
Abigail C. Lindo is Assistant Professor of Global Black Popular Music in the Department of Comparative Studies and Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. She is a Jamaican-born researcher, educator, vocalist, and social scientist specializing in music and sound studies. Her interdisciplinary research centers sound, globalization, and intersectionality to probe the relationships between these realities in the production of modern, sonic cultural realities. Lindo earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where she also completed a Master's degree in music education along with graduate certificates in modern european studies, women's studies, and instructional design. Lindo is a member of Edward A. Bouchet Society and a Fulbright alumna who served multiple roles during her time abroad in Portugal in 2022-23. Her research has been presented nationally and internationally, supported by funding from the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and American Studies Association.
Lindo's first book project explores modern Lusophone identity politics and gender performances in sonic practices while situating the land as a sounding aspect of cultural knowledge. Although the project is geographically focused on the city of Ponta Delgada and the Azores - an autonomous region of Portugal located in the North Atlantic Ocean, it centers the experiences of female and queer musical practitioners and considers the elevation of Black music in the absence of Black bodies (on the island or as creators or consumers in this region). Lindo's research manifests in the production of multimedia, with other research interests including nostalgia and late 20"-century multimedia; ecofeminism in music scenes; and ecologies and ecosystems of sonic knowledge. She is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who is actively incorporating performance into her research, among other creative approaches.
Selected Publications
Lindo, Abigail. Review of Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, by Lauron J. Kehrer. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 88, no. 2 (Dec. 2023): 350-353. https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2023.a912357
Lindo, Abigail. “‘Four Women,’ Three Songs: Nina Simone’s Voice (as Object) in Global Hip Hop Sampling." Music Research Forum 37 (2023): 21-33. https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/mrf/article/view/6490
Lindo, Abigail. “Beyond Black & White: Humanizing Black Bodies Through Hip Hop Videos in the BLM Era." Currents in Music Research 1 (2021). https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/currentsinmusicresearch/articles/music-and-protest-demonstration/beyond-black-and-white-humanizing-black-bodies-through-music-videos-in-the-blm-era/