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Alexandra Lippman is a cultural anthropologist and sound ethnographer. She conducts research in Latin America, primarily Brazil, and her research interests include sound studies, media and technology, race and legal anthropology.  

Her primary research explores how music and sound become political projects as alternative intellectual property, performance and technology are contested. Her manuscript, The Power of Funk: Citizenship, Race, and Sonic Sovereignty in Rio de Janeiro, is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Brazil since 2008.

She also experiments with modes of ethnographic attention and creative scholarly transmissions. She founded the , co-runs a record label, , and hosts a monthly radio show, on Dublab. Her creative work has been covered by , and , among others.  

. Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2020. 

. Invited essay. Anthropology News. January/February, 2022.

. Anthropological Quarterly 94(3), 2021. 

“Listening.” In Kat Jungnickel, ed. MIT Press. 2020. 

“Humor, Hoaxes, and Software. In Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research. Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman, Editors. MIT Press. 2020. 

“Law for Whom?”: Responding to Musical and Sonic Illegality in Brazil. Sound Studies. 2018. 

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. 2018. 

Nature Index. 

In Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff. Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz, eds. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2017. 

With Alessandro Delfanti and Allison Fish. Platypus. June 2015.  

Anthropology Today. 2014. 

With Gregory Scruggs. Norient: 2012. 

Documentaries

Dinastia Pedraza. Nonfiction short film. 7 minutes. 2020.  

City of Funk. Nonfiction short film. 360°. RYOT. 5 minutes. 2016.

Resistance in Little Africa. Nonfiction short film with Boima Tucker. 360°. RYOT. 4 minutes. 2016. 

A City Divided. Nonfiction short film with Boima Tucker. 360°. RYOT. 4 minutes. 2016.