Andrew J. Green is an (ethno)musicologist 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. He is interested in practical 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 publication). His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Popular Music and Society, Ethnomusicology Forum and the International Journal of Cultural Policy. He has 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.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

• Music of Mexico and Central America
• Ecomusicology
• Music and Censorship
• Music and Political Activism
• Music and Materiality

Teaching

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

Selected publications

• Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Muisc After Avándaro (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024 publication)
• “On chainsaws and acoustic violence: Sound and deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, Mexico” (Cultural Anthropology, forthcoming)
• 2022. “Beyond The Crew: Hip-hop and professionalization in Mexico City”. Cultural Sociology 16(1): 25-44.
• 2021. ‘Yo Te AMLO’: Sentimentalism, threat and affective flows in political campaign song videos in Mexico. Media, Culture & Society 43(3): 411-427.
• 2020. “Street Music, Governance and Cultural Policy in San Cristóbal de Las Casas”, International Journal of Cultural Policy 26(4): 417-432.