Dr Andrew J. Green is a cultural anthropologist and popular music scholar. His work explores musical and acoustic engagements with politics, activism, and the natural environment, with particular attention to the musical worlds of Mexico City and southern Mexico, and to musical flows between Central Europe and Latin America. He is interested in connections between music, sound, and practical responses to environmental and political crises in the global South.

Dr Green is the author of the book Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music After Avándaro (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024). His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Geographies, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Popular Music and Society, Ethnomusicology Forum and the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Prior to joining KCL, he researched and taught at the University of Glasgow, University of the West of Scotland, the University of Warsaw, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, having studied his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. He speaks English, Spanish, and Polish, and is currently learning Ukrainian.

Research interests and PhD supervision

Dr Green welcomes expressions of interest from prospective doctoral students intending to conduct research in the following areas:

• Music of Mexico and Central America
• Music in Poland and Central Europe
• Ecomusicology
• Music and Censorship
• Music and Political Activism

Teaching

Dr Green teaches principally in the areas of Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies, and the music of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Selected publications

• Green, A. J. 2025, online ahead of print. "‘This song is a map’: sonic pathways of enclosure and dwelling." Cultural Geographies https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740251328942
• Green, A. J. 2025. “On chainsaws and acoustic violence: Sound and deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico.” Cultural Anthropology, 40(1), 1-26.
• Green, A. J. 2024. Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music After Avándaro (Vanderbilt University Press).
• Green, A. J. 2022. “Beyond The Crew: Hip-hop and professionalization in Mexico City”. Cultural Sociology 16(1): 25-44.
• Green, A. J. 2021. ‘Yo Te AMLO’: Sentimentalism, threat and affective flows in political campaign song videos in Mexico. Media, Culture & Society 43(3): 411-427.