León F. García Corona is a music scholar whose work focuses on the intersections between music, race, and social justice in Mexico, and among its diasporic communities in the United States. His scholarship unveils connections between the culture industries, social class, race, sentimentality and The State oppression of civil liberties. His scholarship has been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Latin American Music Review, American Music, the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is the co-editor and contributor of Voices of the Field: Pathways in Public Ethnomusicology (with Kathleen Wiens, Oxford University Press), in which he and other contributors explore public engagement in ethnomusicology. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Enamored Voices: Music, Migration and Social Struggle in Close Harmony, where he explores close harmony singing in the United States and Mexico and the ways it intersects with issues of race and cultural membership.

García Corona delivered invited lectures and workshops at the University of New Mexico, Kent State University, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, University of Idaho, University of Michigan, and University of Washington, among others. García Corona received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously he worked as a producer for the Smithsonian Institution, where he founded Smithsonian Folkways Magazine and produced dozens of featured articles and educational initiatives, including the award-winning Jazz Educational Website. He is an assistant professor of musicology at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.