About me

I am a professor at Universidad Católica de Chile, where I hold a joint appointment in the College and Music. Before that I taught in the Music Department at Saint Mary’s College (Indiana, USA).

I have been a visiting professor at UT Austin, Tulane, Brown, University of Oregon, and University of Georgia.

Between 2015 and 2019 I served as Director of Graduate Studies & Research for Universidad Católica’s School of Arts.

I earned my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and my undergradute degrees–a BS in Physics and a BA in Music–at Universidad Católica de Chile.

Research Interests and Current Projects

My research interests include popular music and culture of the Americas and Spain, gender and sexuality, and music and social movements.

Currently, I am responsible researcher for the digital musicology project Gender and the Billboard Hot Latin Songs Chart (Fondo Puente UC 2025-2026).

And I am one of the principal researchers in the interdisciplinary Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures, a three-year study funded by ANID’s Iniciativa Científica Milenio (NCS2022_016, 2023-2025).

Manuscripts and recent publications

Party, D. Nuevas aproximaciones a Víctor Jara a 50 años de su muerte. Revista Musical Chilena. Under review.

Party, D. & Benavente, J. Renovación de la conmemoración del golpe de estado chileno: Los Diablos Rojos de Víctor Jara en la marcha por los derechos humanos. Under review.

Achondo, L. & Party, D., eds. (2025). Ecologías sonoras desde al Antropoceno latinoamericano: Una introducción al dossier. Resonancias, 29(56), 223-229.

Party, D. , & Díaz Pinto, A. M. (2025). Twenty-first century Latin/o American Popular Music. In R. Moore & W. A. Clark (Eds.), Musics of Latin America (in press).

Party, D., & Wolf, J. E. (2023). Canto por travesura: folklore y picaresca en un disco de Víctor Jara. Revista Musical Chilena, 77(240), 62-79.

Party, D. (2023). The Right to Live in Peace: Musical Responses to Violence in the 2019 Chilean Uprising. Latin American Perspectives, 50(3), 37-52.

Party, D. (2023). Rethinking Post-Authoritarian Chile Through its Popular Music. Twentieth-Century Music, 20(1), 90-106.