Rebecca M. Bodenheimer, Oakland, California, is an ethnomusicologist who has conducted research in Cuba since 2004, examining the contemporary performance practices of rumba and a range of other Afro-Cuban folkloric and popular musical styles in the cities of Havana, Matanzas, and Santiago. Her work has appeared in "Black Music Research Journal", "Musical Quarterly", "Ethnomusicology", and "Latin American Music Review".