Luis Ricardo Silva Queiroz

Education, Ethnomusicology, and Acoustic Guitar at the Federal University of Paraíba. He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes and supervises master's and Ph. Students. He got a Ph.D. in Music/Ethnomusicology (Federal University of Bahia, 2005); MA in Music Education (Brazilian Conservatory of Music, 2000); BA in Music Education and Guitar Performance (State University of Montes Claros, 1997). His primary research interests include: decolonial music education, intercultural music education against musical epistemicides, Afro-Brazilian music, Popular Brazilian music, music education in contemporaneity, music curricula, diversity, and decolonial options, ethnomusicological perspectives on Brazilian and Latin American Music. Some of his recent publications include: Afro-Brazilian Culture in Higher Music Education: Analyses from a Trajectory of Exclusions and Epistemicides (2021); For how long, Brazil? Decolonial Perspectives to Rethink the Higher Music Education (2020); Afro-Brazilian Musical Cultures: Perspectives for Educational Conceptions e Practices in Music (2016). He served as the President of the Brazilian National Association of Music Education - ABEM (2013-2017). Currently, he is the President of the Nacional Brazilian Society of Research and Graduate Studies - ANPPOM (2022-2023). He has kept a Productivity Research Fellowship since 2013, funding by The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).