Frances Aparicio is the author of ''Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures'' (). She is also the co-author of ''Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I'' and ''Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (Re-Encounters with Colonialism)''. She is the editor of several books including ''Latino Voices''. She has been a professor at

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and

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, where she directed the Latina/Latino Studies Program. She was born Frances Rivera in

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on December 11, 1955. She moved to the United States to earn her bachelor's at

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. She earned a

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. She is an editorial advisory board member of

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, a Latin American and Latinx literature, philosophy, and arts journal.

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