Tausig traces the circulation of certain specific musical gestures from Cuba and other Latin American settings to the Philippines and Thailand from 1898 through the 1950s. His research examines the processes by which Afro-Latin musical idioms became commonplace in Thailand, even as the paths of their circulation remained opaque to most listeners.

Sponsored by the History Department, the Hispanic Languages & Literature Department, the Latin American & Carribbean Studies Center, and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.

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