Geoff Baker

Geoff Baker is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of Research at the music charity Agrigento. He is the author of Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco (Duke, 2008); Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana (Duke, 2011); El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth (OUP, 2014); and Rethinking Social Action through Music (OBP, 2021). He made documentaries about music learning in Cuba and Venezuela (Growing into Music). He is a founding board member of SIMM (Social Impact of Making Music) and a Co-Investigator on the research project “Music for social impact: practitioners’ contexts, work and beliefs.”