I currently hold a tenure position as Professora Titular-Serra Húnter Fellow in the the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Over recent years, my teaching activity has taken on a more international orientation; I have given classes in several different universities in France, Portugal, Austria, and the USA, among which I would highlight seminars at Hofstra University, New York (2015), Columbia University (2014), City University of New York (2011), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidade de Aveiro (2010) and the Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail (2007). During the 2017-2018 year, I have been employed by the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria) to give a weekly Seminar in Ethnomusicology: "Gender Studies and Popular Music: an Ethnomusicological Approach". In 2019 and 2021 I will be invited to teach Master courses in the Music Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), as well as joint the Master and PhD Programm in Ethnomusicology.

My research activity has featured in more than fifty publications, including books, articles, and contributions to collections of writings. Among these, I would highlight the publication Made in Spain. Studies in Spanish Popular Music (Routledge 2013); my contributions to The Singer-Songwriter in Europe, edited by Isabelle Marc and Stuart Green (Ashgate 2016); Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sounds (Routledge 2003), edited by Goffredo Plastino; and to Recent Trends and New Directions in Ethnomusicology (Shaker 2019) edited by Gerd Grupe. The most recent articles (2020, 2022) include original fieldwork research in folk and popular musics from Spain with a deep gender perspective published in top journals as Transcultural Music Review (Scopus Emerging Sources) and Popular Music & Society (Q1 Scopus). Some internationally-distributed publications have resulted from my work in groups and global networks, such as the Study Group of ICTM “Mutipart Music” (coordinated by Dr. Ardian Ahmedaja of the Universität MdK Wien) and the European Popular Musics Research Group (coordinated by Dr Stuart Green, University of Leeds): outstanding among these is the aformentioned participation in the 2016 collective work on singer-songwriters, as well as several contributions to releases as part of the European Voices series (Böhlau Verlag Wien 2005, 2008, 2011). As co-editor, I would highlight, among others, the books Approaches to African Music, coedited with Dr. Enrique Cámara (University of Valladolid, 2006) and Voces e imágenes de la etnomusicología actual, coedited with Dr. Josep Martí (Ministry of Culture, 2004); and, as author, the single-subject work Enganxats al heavy. Cultura, música i transgresió (Pagès 1999). Furthermore, the results of my work have been presented at more than 40 conferences, most of them of international scope. Among the scientific societies I actively work with are the International Council for Traditional Music, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and the European Seminar of Ethnomusicology.

In addition to research and teaching—the fundamental activities of my career—I have also acquired over the past 20 years wide-ranging experience in organisation and management, beginning with my founding a Spanish branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. IASPM-España is a pioneer experience in Spain, one which I led as President from its origins in 1997 until handing on the post in 2003. Later, from 2006 to 2010, I was President of the SIBE-Sociedad de Etnomusicología, a scientific association that covers most researchers in this field on the Spanish peninsula. Over four years of the association's administration, we boosted the profile of the SIBE, making it an international benchmark organisation following the holding of two large-scale conferences (Salamanca 2008 and Lisbon 2010) both of which gathered together some 400 researchers from all over the world. With regard to teaching management, from 2007 to 2012 I was in charge of the Department of Musicology at the Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC). In recent years, this accumulated experience was behind my being appointed General Secretary on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (2017-2019).