Juan David Rubio Restrepo [email protected] (+1) 619-802-3823

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

The University of Texas at El Paso, Assistant Professor, Department of Music/Chicano Studies Program, 2020—present

University of California San Diego, Associate-In, Music Department, 2016—2020 Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department (Spanish), 2015—2020 Teaching Assistant, Music Department, 2014—2018

University of California Irvine, Teaching Assistant, Music Department, 2012—2014

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Lecturer, Music Department (undergraduate program and Programa Infantil y Juvenil), 2009—2012

EDUCATION

University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA Doctor of Philosophy, Music (focus on Integrative Studies), June 2020 Dissertation: “Genealogies of the popular: Alterity, nation, and industry in the voice of Julio Jaramillo.” Committee: Profs. Amy Cimini (chair), Nancy Guy, Anthony Davis, Roshanak Kheshti, and Kirstie Dorr

University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, June 2014 Thesis project: “Spatia: A telematic interactive concert/installation”

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Bachelor of Music with Highest Honors, Drum performance and Jazz Studies, June 2008

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Latin American musics and musics from the African diaspora (cumbia, global jazz, Afro-Cuban music). Latin American studies (decolonial thought, mestizaje, gender and masculinity, nation and nationalisms). Critical race studies and cultural studies (African-American, Caribbean, Chicano/a and Latin American studies of race, post-Marxist thought). Music industry and circulation (piracy, sound-system cultures, Pan-American media industry). Ethnography of popular music (private archives, oral histories, record collectors). Performance and composition

1 (percussive languages of Latin American musics and musics of the African diaspora, conduction, improvisation, non-traditional notation). Experimental practices and digital technologies (telematics, electro-acoustic practices, critical studies in experimental practices).

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals “‘Una Cosa es el Indio y Otra Cosa es la Antropología’: Aural and racial (dis)encounters in cumbia’s current circulation”. Twentieth-Century Music, 17(1) (2020): 87-112.

“Ritualized Performance in the Networked Era: Alternative Models for New Artistic Media”. Leonardo Music Journal, no. 24, Emerging Voices (2014): 21-23.

Chapters in Books Co-authored with Pedro Ojeda. “Historicizing a Scene and Sound: The Case of Colombia’s ‘Música Tropical Sabanera,’” in Cambridge Companion to the Drumkit, eds. Matt Brennan, Joseph Michael Pignato, and Daniel Akira Stadnicki. Under contract with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

“Cumbias y rebajadas: Aurality, race, and class in Monterrey’s ‘colombia’ culture”, in Scattered Musics, eds. David Henderson and Martha Chew Sanchez. Under contract with University Press of Mississippi (forthcoming).

Reviews Review of The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening, by Jennifer Lynn Stoever (New York University Press, 2016). Journal of American Ethnic History, 38 (1) (2019): 80–81.

Non-academic publications “Sonidos a Oídos Sordos.” Bogotá Ciudad Creativa de la Música. Secretaría de Cultura, Recreación y Deporte (2012).

CONFERENCES

“Genealogías de lo popular: Música, alteridad, nación e industria.” Comunicación y Cultura Popular en América Latina y el Caribe. Universidad de , Santiago, Chile, September 3-5, 2019.

“‘Una Cosa es el Indio y Otra Cosa es la Antropología’: Aural and racial (dis)encounters in cumbia’s current circulation.” Global Musics and Musical Communities. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, May 10-11, 2019.

“The popular in music: Alterity, nation, and industry; a view from the south.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music-U.S. 2019 Conference. New Orleans, LA, March 7- 10, 2019.

2 “‘Una Cosa es el Indio y Otra Cosa es la Antropología’: Aural and racial (dis)encounters in cumbia’s current circulation.” Society for Ethnomusicology 63rd Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM, November 15-18, 2018.

“Genealogies of the popular: Música popular, Eurocentrism and a decolonial account in the voice of Julio Jaramillo”, Latin American Music and Performance Conference. University of California Riverside. Riverside, CA, February 17-18, 2018.

“Genealogies of the popular: Música popular, Eurocentrism and a decolonial account in the voice of Julio Jaramillo.” Society for Ethnomusicology 632nd Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 26-29, 2017.

“Bringing Down the House: Soundescapes Transnational Identity and Technological Agency in cumbia rebajada.” Southern California and Hawaii Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology 57th Annual Meeting, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 4-6, 2016.

“Bringing Down the House: Soundescapes Transnational Identity and Technological Agency in cumbia rebajada.” Intercultural Music Conference and Concerts, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Febraury 26-28, 2016.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Travel and research grant. University of California San Diego, Music Department, 2019 Grant to support travel to present in academic conference

Center for Iberian and Studies Tinker Grant. University of California San Diego, 2018 Grant to support dissertation-related fieldwork in , Colombia, and México

International Institute Graduate Fellowship (declined). University of California San Diego, 2018 Grant to support dissertation-related fieldwork in Ecuador, Colombia, and México

Friends of the International Center. University of California San Diego, 2018 Grant to support dissertation-related fieldwork in Ecuador, Colombia, and México

Travel and research grant. University of California San Diego, Music Department, 2018 Grant to support archival research in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia

Graduate conference grant. University of California San Diego, Music Department, 2018 Grant to support Sonic Fluidities: An Interdisciplinary Music Conference

Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Scholarship. The New School, 2017 Grant to support travel, lodging, and tuition for the 2017 Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Scholarship Summer Seminar

3 The Dean of Arts and Humanities Travel Fund. University of California San Diego, Division of Arts and Humanities, 2017 Grant to support travel, lodging, and tuition for the 2017 Institute for Critical Social Inquiry Scholarship Summer Seminar

Travel and research grant. University of California San Diego, Music Department, 2017 Grant to support travel to present in academic conference

Travel and research grant. University of California San Diego, Music Department, 2015 Grant to support fieldwork in Monterrey, México

Travel and research grant. University of California Irvine, Music Department, 2013 Grant to support research and travel for the project Spatia: A telematic interactive concert/installation

Miguel Velez Scholarship. University of California Irvine, Graduate Division, 2013 Grant to support production costs for the project Spatia: A telematic interactive concert/installation

Medici Scholarship. University of California Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, 2012 Grant to support research and travel for the project Spatia: A telematic interactive concert/installation

Miguel Velez Scholarship. University of California Irvine, Graduate Division, 2012 Grant to support telematic research and outreach with faculty and students at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Taught as Instructor of Record University of California San Diego Music of the Americas. Undergraduate lower-division general education course. Using influential and current academic literature, primary and secondary sources, and assigned listening, the course introduces the students to a wide array of Latin American musics as it presents them with important sociopolitical issues and current academic debates in the humanities and social sciences. Music on the Move: Sound, circulation, mediation. Undergraduate upper- division course centered around music circulation and mediation. Topics include piracy, recording technologies, sound system cultures, streaming/digital technologies and focuses on issues such as race, class, and migration. Cumbia in/across America. Undergraduate lower-division general education course offering a survey of cumbia across the American continent and includes case studies from México, the U.S., the U.S.-Mexico border, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and among others. The course makes emphasis on issues of colonialism/coloniality, race, class, gender, nation, and circulation as provides a quick introduction to the history of Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries.

4 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Taller de Improvisación Libre. Practice-oriented course for music majors and the first one of its kind in the music department exploring Eurological, Afrological, and local approaches to improvisation Apreciación de la Música. Music appreciation course focusing on music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Taught as part of the university’s youth program (Programa Infantil y Juvenil, PIJ) Ensamble de Jazz. Jazz combo for advanced students of the youth PIJ program focusing on jazz repertoire from the 1960s and on Ensamble de improvisación y música experimental. Practice-oriented course focusing on improvised and experimental practices for students in the youth PIJ program. Ensamble Caribe. Practice-oriented course for students in the youth PIJ program focused on Latin American popular musics. Repertoire included cumbia, salsa, merengue, and , among others

Courses as Teaching Assistant University of California San Diego Jazz and Music of the African diaspora. Upper-division jazz history survey course part of PATH (Preparing Accomplished Transfer to the Humanities), a collaborative program between the San Diego Community College District and the UC San Diego to help provide guidance to students transferring from local community colleges to study arts and humanities Hip Hop. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion undergraduate survey course on the history and development of Hip Hop in the U.S. 1959: Jazz at the crossroads. Undergraduate upper-division course focusing on the year 1959, major jazz artists and recording. It explores issues of race, gender, sexuality, blackness, and pan-Africanism in the context of the civil rights movement. David Bowie. Undergraduate course on the career and music of David Bowie focusing on issues of gender and sexuality, race, and industry. World Music: Asian and Oceania. Undergraduate survey course. Topics covered included Peking opera, musics of India, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii. World Music: The . Undergraduate survey course. Topics covered included Cajun music, Native American musics, bluegrass, Sacred Harp and Shape Note singing, , American ballads, Asian-American taiko, and blues A History of Western Music. General education course on the history of Western music Regional Mexican Music. Undergraduate survey course on Mexican music, with emphasis on corridos and narco-corridos. Spanish Conversation. A four quarter course required for all the undergraduates in a small classroom environment (~15 students) Active learning strategies are used throughout, creating a highly participatory environment. Spanish Grammar. A four quarter course required for all the undergraduates in a small classroom environment (~30 students). Active learning strategies are used throughout, creating a highly participatory environment

5 University of California Irvine Jazz History. General education course offering a survey of the history of jazz in the U.S. Beatles and the ‘60s. General education course on The Beatles. Introduction to Music. General education course offering undergraduate students from across the campus an introduction to basic music concepts

SCHOLARLY SERVICE

Peer Reviewer, Journal of Popular Music Education, 2020

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of California San Diego, Music Department Search committee member/graduate students representative. Assistant Professor of Latin American Music. Co-organizer/committee member. Sonic Fluidities: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.

University of California Irvine, Music Department Staff/documentarian. New Directions in Graduate Music Programs Conference.

OTHER ACADEMIC TRAINING

Introduction to College Teaching. Staff Education and Development. University of California San Diego, March 2019

Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. The New School (New York City), June 2017 Week-long academic seminar on the works and thought of Walter Benjamin taught by anthropologist Michael Taussig (Columbia University)

AWARDS

The Jazz Award. University of California San Diego, 2019 For the most outstanding contribution to the UCSD Jazz Ensemble in 2018-2019

Undergraduate Merit Mention. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008 Commending undergraduate recital and research project

“Alumno excelencia.” Gimnasio Horizontes ASPAEN, Manizales, Colombia, 2000 Commending the most outstanding student in the school

6 LANGUAGES

Spanish (native) English (fluent ) Portuguese (reading)

MEMBERSHIPS

Society for Ethnomusicology International Association for the Study of Popular Music Latin American Studies Association

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Telematic Bridges/Puentes Telemáticos. Manizales, Colombia/Irvine CA, 2017—present Telematic summer camp organized in collaboration with Mario Valencia (Universidad de Caldas) and Michael Dessen (University of California Irvine) bringing together youths from Manizales, Colombia and Santa Ana, CA for an intensive week of collaboration around, music, improvisation, and digital/telematic technologies

Bogotá Orquesta de Improvisadores BOI. Bogotá, Colombia 2007—present Co-founder and co-director. The orchestra is open to musicians of any background and artists across the disciplinary spectrum. Besides fostering local improvisational and experimental practices, the orchestra also performs and premiers works by local composers

DISCOGRAPHY

“Invisible People: music from the radio operas of Yvette Janine Jackson.” Yvette Janine Jackson (2017)

“Pueblo Alimaña.” 1280 Almas. La coneja ciega (2012)

“Jazz y Músicas Populares, Compositores Javerianos V.” Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2012)

“#1, compilado *matik-matik*.” *matik-matik* discos (2012)

“(…).” Etcétera. Festina Lente Discos (2011)

“Alegría por encima de la tristeza.” 1280 Almas (CD/DVD). La Coneja Ciega (2011)

7 REFERENCES

Amy Cimini, Associate Professor of Music, University of California San Diego ([email protected])

Nancy Guy, Professor of Music, University of California San Diego ([email protected])

Roshanak Kheshti, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego ([email protected])

Michael Dessen, Associate Professor of Music, University of California Irvine ([email protected])

Nicole Mitchell, Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies, University of Pittsburgh ([email protected])

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