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 an experienced ethnographer, who is invested in the ways that music/sound research can support practical responses to environmental and political crises in the global South.

Dr Green has published extensively. He is the author of the book Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music After Avándaro (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024). His research has also appeared in many high-ranking peer-reviewed journals including Ethnomusicology, 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 King's, 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 has familiarity with beginner Ukrainian). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Ethnomusicology.

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. Reforesting About Music? Auralities of Restoration in Southern Mexico City. Ethnomusicology, 69(2), 177-199.
• 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. (2025). On Censorship, Silence, and Rubble: Reflections on the Destruction of a Performance Venue in Mexico City. Twentieth-Century Music, 22(3), 455-481.
• 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.