Sílvia Martínez has been a visiting postgraduate student at the University of Montreal (Canada) and UCLA (USA) and researcher at the Humboldt Universität Berlin (Germany) and the Spanish National Research Council-CSIC (Spain). After being Professor of Ethnomusicology at the ESMUC in Barcelona (2002-2017) and the Kunstuniversität Graz in Austria (2018), she is currently a Lecturer and Serra Húnter Fellow at the Art and Musicology Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The focus of her reserch deals with popular music from the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21th century, with special emphasis on gender and postcolonial perspectives. She has published works covering a wide range of topics: from heavy metal (Enganxats to heavy. Music, culture and trangressió, 1999) to Mediterranean music (“Seeking Connections Through a Sea” in Mediterranean Mosaic, Routledge, 2003) and song of author (“Judges, Guitars, Freedom & the Mainstream” in The Singer Songwriter in Europe, Ashgate, 2016). She has also co-edited, with Héctor Fouce, the volume on Spain of the Global Popular Music series published by Routledge (Made in Spain. Studies in Popular Music, 2013). She is currently preparing a book about conflicts in Latin American popular under the lens of XXI century feminisms.