Abigail C. Lindo is assistant professor of Global Black Popular Music in the Department of Comparative Studies and Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. She is a Jamaican-born researcher, educator, vocalist, and social scientist specializing in music and sound studies. Her interdisciplinary research centers sound, globalization, and intersectionality to probe the relationships between these realities in the production of modern, sonic cultural realities. Lindo earned her PhD from the University of Florida, where she also completed a master's degree in music education along with graduate certificates in modern European studies, women's studies, and instructional design. Lindo is a member of the Edward A. Bouchet Society and a Fulbright alumna who served multiple roles during her time abroad in Portugal. Her research has been presented nationally and internationally, supported by funding from the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and American Studies Association.

Lindo's first book project explores modern Lusophone identity politics and gender performances in sonic practices while situating the land as a sounding aspect of cultural knowledge. Although the project is geographically focused on the city of Ponta Delgada and the Azores — an autonomous region of Portugal located in the North Atlantic Ocean, it centers the experiences of female and queer musical practitioners, and considers the elevation of Black musical aesthetics in the absence of Black bodies (on the island or as creators or consumers in this region). Lindo's research manifests in the production of multimedia, with other research interests including nostalgia and late 20"-century multimedia; ecofeminism in music scenes; and ecologies and ecosystems of sonic knowledge. She is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who is actively incorporating performance into her research, among other creative approaches.
 

Selected Publications

Lindo, Abigail. “‘Four Women,’ Three Songs: Nina Simone’s Voice (as Object) in Global Hip Hop Sampling." Music Research Forum 37 (2023): 21–33.

Lindo, Abigail. Review of Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, by Lauron J. Kehrer. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 88, no. 2 (Dec. 2023): 350–353. 

Lindo, Abigail. “Beyond Black and White: Humanizing Black Bodies Through Hip Hop Videos in the BLM Era." Currents in Music Research 1 (2021).