Thomas Turino, a professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, primarily specializes in Andean music, Latin American music, and the music of southern Africa. He also specializes in the semiotics of music and in theoretical issues of music and politics. He has done major fieldwork in Peru and Zimbabwe funded by Fulbright, Inter-American Foundation, and Tinker Fellowships. In addition to academic classes, he teaches performa...