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Waxer Yip, Lise Aerinne
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Lise Waxer was born in Toronto on May 30, 1965.
She completed an undergraduate degree in music at the University of Toronto, then earned a master's in ethnomusicology and musicology at York University, as well as completing a PhD at the University of Illinois. During her PhD, she initially researched salsa communities in Toronto and then in Colombia, where she would also wed her husband.
In 1997, she relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where she taught at Trinity College as a professor of world music. She was an ethnomusicologist of salsa music and respected within the salsa community for her critically acclaimed book, The City of Musical Memory, which traced the development of salsa music, vinyl recordings, and memory in Cali, Colombia. Her book was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM); however, she never received the prize due to her sudden death from colon cancer on August 13, 2002. SEM would later establish the Lise Waxer Student Paper Prize in her honour.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.