Sergio Navarrete Pellicer is a tenured research professor C at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, (ciesas) and a member of the National System of Researchers, level ii. D. in Social Anthropology from the University of London and an M.A. in Music with an emphasis in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland. He directed the project "Ethnography of Musical Cultures in Oaxaca" (ecmo(Conacyt-Fomix M0036-2010-02-148276), and the project "Ritual sonoro catedralicio. A multidisciplinary approach to the music of the novohispanic cathedrals" (Conacyt-CB-2008-01/103377). He received the Newton Fund grant from the British Academy to develop the project "Somos negros de la Costa/AfroMexican Musical Youth: Roots, Creativity, Community". In the field of teaching he has taught courses and seminars in the specialization in Art History at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the University of Mexico. unam at its Oaxaca headquarters, as well as in the Art History degree program of the uabjo. He has formed a team of music historians with whom he has elaborated catalogs of music from the historical parish and municipal archives of Oaxaca.