Hazel Marsh is Assistant Professor at the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia, UK. She is from a Romanichal background. Her research interests include popular music and social activism, politics and popular culture, collective memory and identity, migration and internal displacement, Romani contributions to cultural heritage and representations of ‘Gypsy’/Roma/Traveller groups. She has published on George Borrow’s construction of ‘Gypsy’ identity, music and social movements in Mexico and Venezuelan cultural policy in the Chávez period. She is the author of the monograph Hugo Chávez, Alí Primera and Venezuela: The Politics of Music in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).