Robin D. Moore
School of Music University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station E3100 Austin, TX 78712-0435 USA Off. Tel.(512)471-0373 Fax (512) 471-7836 Hm. Tel. (512)374-1070 [email protected]
Education
1995 Ph.D. in music (emphasis ethnomusicology), University of Texas at Austin. 1990-95 Doctoral studies, University of Texas at Austin. Major field: ethnomusicology. Minor field: popular culture studies. Geographic specialization: Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean. 1990 MA in music (emphasis ethnomusicology), University of California, Santa Barbara. 1982-87 BA cum laude in music (emphasis composition), March, 1987, University of California, Santa Barbara. Junior year at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria.
Employment
2010- Professor, University of Texas at Austin. 2005-09 Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin. 2003-05 Associate Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia. 1997-2002 Assistant Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia. 2001 Adjunct Faculty for the Fall Semester, Swarthmore College. 1996-97 Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College. 1995-96 Lecturer, Music Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Field Research
2011 Havana, Cuba (2 weeks): Research on the early history of the danzón. 2007 Recife, Brazil (3 weeks): Research into candomblé drumming in the terreiro Xambá. 2006 Havana, Cuba (3 weeks): Research into the artistic career of Afro-Cuban percussionist Pedro Izquierdo. Vita, R. Moore, p. 2
2003 Havana, Cuba (1 month): Interviews conducted on the formation of government musical institutions including state empresas and casas de cultura. 2002 Cartagena, Colombia (2 weeks): Research on Afro-Colombian percussion rhythms including gaita, porro, mapalé, bullerengue, and cumbia.
Awards, Prizes
2011-12 American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship 2011 Mellon Research Travel Grant (Oaxaca, Mexico) 2010 Hamilton Book Award Prize Winner, University Co-Operative Society 2010 Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Sabbatical Grant 2008 Mellon Research Travel Grant (Havana, Cuba) 2007 Big XII Faculty Fellowship Grant for lectures at the University of Kansas 2005 Library Research Grant from Florida International University 2004-5 Residency Fellowship, The National Humanities Center, North Carolina 1998 Gustave O. Arlt Award, The Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, D.C. 1996 Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Residency and Travel Grant 1992-4 MacArthur Foundation Peace and Security Grant for dissertation research
Courses Taught
Introduction to Ethnomusicology (graduate) Analytical Methods in Ethnomusicology (graduate) Music and Nationalism (graduate) Music, Race, and History (graduate) Studies in Popular Music (graduate) Introduction to Music Pedagogy (graduate) Music of Mexico and the Caribbean (undergraduate) Music of Central and South America (undergraduate) Music of the African Diaspora (undergraduate) Introduction to World Music (undergraduate) Popular Music in the United States (undergraduate) History of Rock ‘n’ Roll (undergraduate) Music Appreciation (undergraduate) Music of the Twentieth Century (undergraduate)
Current Professional Service
—Editor, Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana —Editorial Board, Journal of Black Music Research —Editorial Board, Revista Brasileira de Música
Vita, R. Moore, p. 3
Performance
2006- Director, The University of Texas Hispanic Caribbean Ensemble 2005-06 Director, The University of Texas Mariachi Paredes de Tejastitlan 1998-2005 Director, The Temple University Latin American Ensemble
Refereed Publications
Edited Books 2012 Musics of Latin America. New York: W.W. Norton. 453 pp.
Books 2013 Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance (co-authored with Alejandro Madrid). New York: Oxford University Press. 281 pp. 2010 Music of the Hispanic Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press. 256 pp. 2006 Music and Revolution. Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Berkeley: University of California Press. 350 pp. 2002 Música y Mestizaje. Revolución artística y cambio social en la Habana (1920-1940). Madrid: Editorial Colibrí. 362 pp. [a translation of Nationalizing Blackness] 1997 Nationalizing Blackness: afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920- 1940. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press. 320 pp.
Articles In press “Carlos Varela, Protest Song, and Cuban Music History.” In Habáname: The Musical City of Carlos Varela. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. In press “The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century.” In Donna Buchanan, ed., Soundscapes from the Americas: Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance. London: Ashgate [2014]. In press “The racialization of heritage: danzones and Cuban cultural controversies of the 1880s.” In Maria Alice Volpe, ed., Patrimônio Musical na Atualidade: Tradição, Memória, Discurso e Poder. (Série Simpósio Internacional de Musicologia da UFRJ, vol. 3). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: UFRJ. 2012 “Música negra e a diaspora: reflexes sobre o caribe hisánico.” Projeto História., São Paulo no. 44 (June 2012), pp. 305-19. 2010 “Havana in the nueva trova repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso.” In Amanda Holmes and Richard Young, eds., Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 15-30. 2007 “Música e crise ideológica em Cuba de 1990 em diante.” ArtCultura vol. 9 no. 15 (July-December 2007), pp. 213-29. 2006 “Black Music in a Raceless Society: Afrocuban Folklore and Socialism.” Cuban Studies 37. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 1-32. Vita, R. Moore, p. 4
2006 “Analysis of a tratado for Obatalá, ‘King of the White Cloth.’ ” Michael Tenzer, ed., Analytical Studies in World Musics. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 120- 160. Co-written with Elizabeth Sayre. 2005 “Revolution and Religion: Yoruba Sacred Music in Socialist Cuba.” Toyin Falola and Matt Childs, eds., The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World, pp. 260-290. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003 “Transformations in Cuban Nueva Trova, 1965-95.” Ethnomusicology vol. 47 no. 1 (Winter 2003), pp. 1-41. 2002 “Échale salsita: el son y la revolución musical en La Habana.” Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales Año 10 vol. 19 (July, 2002), pp. 229-244. Caracas, Venezuela: Departamento de Lengua y Literatura, Universidad Simón Bolívar. 2002 “Salsa and Socialism: Dance Music in Cuba, 1959-99.” In Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music, ed. Lise Waxer, pp. 51-74. New York: Routledge. 2002 “’Revolución con pachanga’?: Debates Over the Place of Fun in the Dance Music of Socialist Cuba.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies vol. 26, No. 52, pp. 151-177. 2002 “La fiebre de la rumba.” Encuentro de la cultura cubana vol. 23 (Winter 2001-2002), pp. 175-194. 2001 “From the canción protesta to the nueva trova, 1965-85.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education vol. 14 no. 2, pp. 177-200. 2000 “Nacionalizar la africanía: el auge del afrocubanismo en La Habana, 1920-1940.” Nueva época, Revista de ciencias sociales no. 8 (Jan 2000), pp. 39-85. 1998 “Poetic, Visual, and Symphonic Interpretations of the Cuban Rumba: Towards a Model of Integrative Studies.” Lenox Avenue, A Journal of Interartistic Inquiry vol. 4 pp. 93-112. 1995 “The Commercial Rumba: Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture.” Latin American Music Review vol. 16 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 1995) pp. 165-198. 1994 “Representations of Afrocuban Expressive Culture in the Writings of Fernando Ortiz.” Latin American Music Review vol. 15 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1994), pp. 32-54. 1992 “The Decline of Improvisation in Western Art Music Since 1840: An Interpretation of Change.” The International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music vol. 23 no. 1 (June 1992), pp. 61-84. 1991 “‘Primitivism’ and Afrocuban Music: Developmental Parallels” The Caribbean Studies Journal vol. 7 nos. 2 and 3 (Winter 1989/Spring 1990), pp. 181-88.
Other Publications
In press Eight brief articles (500-1000 words) for the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight (Oxford, 2014).
Vita, R. Moore, p. 5
In press “The Commercial Rumba: Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture.” Black Music and Music History, ed ***. New York: Oxford University Press,(a reprint of the 1995 Latin American Music Review Article mentioned above).
In press Forward to Cuban Flute Style. Interpretation and Improvisation (New York: Scarecrow Press, 2013).
In press Eight brief articles (approximately 300 words each) on Latin American and Latino music to appear in the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013 “Carlos Varela, canción protesta, y la historia de la música cubana.” In Habáname: La ciudad musical de Carlos Varela. Havana: Centro Cultural “Pablo de la Torriente Brau” (a translation of the 2013 University of Toronto publication mentioned above). 2012 “Havana no repertório nueva trova de Gerardo Alfonso.” Revista Brasileira de Música vol. 25 no. 1 (Jan-June, 2012), pp. 41-60 [translated reprint of 2010 refereed publication]. 2011 “O teatro bufo: teatro blackface cubano.” In Antonio Herculano Lopes et. al., eds., Música e historia no longo século xix. Rio de Janeiro: Casa Rui Barbosa, pp. 357-82 [translation of refereed publication]. 2009 Liner notes for the CD Vuela by Reynaldo Fernández Pavón. Miami, FL: Enola Records. 2006 “Afrocubanismo.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, ed. Colin A. Palmer, vol. 1, 2nd ed., pp. 56-58. Detroit, MI: Macmillan. 2004 “Ortiz Fernández, Fernando.” Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) vol. 12 in “Personenteil,” columns 1439-1440. Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag. 2004 “Afrocubanismo and Son.” Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, eds., The Cuba Reader. History, Culture, Politics, pp. 192-200. Durham: Duke University Press. 2004 Fifteen brief articles (150-750 words) on Cuban music for Cuban Music from A to Z. Durham: Duke University Press. 2003 Fourteen brief articles (200-500 words) on Cuban music for the two-volume Encyclopedia of Cuba: People, History, Culture, ed. Luis Martínez-Fernández, J.H. Figueredo Jr., and Louis A. Pérez. New York: The Oryx Press pp. 381, 382, 384, 385, 391, 396, 398-99, 408-09, 410, 420-21, 423-24, 427-28. 2001 “Santiago de Cuba.” New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition vol. 22 pp. 257-58. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries. 2001 “Cuba II: Traditional Music.” New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition vol. 6 pp. 763-69. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries. 2001 “Sánchez de Fuentes y Peláez, Eduardo.” New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition vol. 22 pp. 226-27. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries.
Recent Reviews [2013] Review of Buena Vista in the Club. Rap, Reggaetón, and the Revolution in Havana. Latin American Music Review vol. 34 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2013). Vita, R. Moore, p. 6
2012 Review of A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, 1898-1902, by Marial Iglesias Utset. Hispanic American Historical Review. vol. 92, no. 2 (May 2012), pp. 376-78. 2010 Review of San Juan-New York: Discografía de la música puertorriqueña 1900-1942. Latin American Music Review vol. 31 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), pp 270-72. 2010 Review of Creolizing the Contradance in the Caribbean by Peter Manuel. Latin American Music Review vol. 31 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), pp. 272-75. 2008 Review of Los Contrapunteos de la música cubana by Cristóbal Díaz Ayala. Latin American Music Review vol. 29 no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2008), pp. 268-71. 2008 Review of Música, a documentary film by Gustavo Paredes on the history of Spanish Caribbean music in New York City. In “Watching the Caribbean: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Caribbean Cinema: Part I.” Caribbean Studies, vol. 36 no. 2, pp. 241- 44.
Recent Scholarly Presentations 2013 “Early Jazz and Dialogues with the Circum-Caribbean.” Presentation at the annual Latin American Studies Association conference in Washington D.C (May 30th). “The Danzón and Musical Dialogues With Early Jazz.” Invited speaker, Michigan State University (April 26th). “Danzones and Revolution: Cuban cultural controversies of the 1880s.” University of Texas at Austin (February 22nd). “The Danzón and Musical Dialogues With Early Jazz.” Invited speaker, Baylor University (February 4th).
2012 “Danzones and y las tradiciones contestadas: Debates culturales cubanas de los años 1880s.” Keynote speech for the 3rd Federal University of Rio de Janeiro International Symposium of Musicology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (14 August). “Reflections on Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research.” Invited speaker. Annual conference of the American Council of Learned Societies, Philadelphia (May 11th). “Danzones and Revolution: Cuban cultural controversies of the 1880s.” Invited speaker. Music Department, Princeton University (March 26th). “El jazz, la improvisación y el danzón.” Invited speaker. Festival Nacional Danzonero, Monterrey, Mexico (March 17th).
2011 “The Danzón, Race, and Cuban Cultural Controversies of the 1880s.” Panel organizer, “The Danzón in Cuba and Mexico.” Annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Philadelphia (November 17th). “The Danzón and Cuban Musical Influence on Early Jazz.” Invited speaker. University of Delaware (October 11th)w “The Danzón and Cuban Musical Influence on Early Jazz.” Keynote. Indiana University (October 22nd) Vita, R. Moore, p. 7
“The Emergence of the Modern Mariachi.” Keynote. Texas State University San Marcos (April 2nd). “Black Music and Diaspora: Reflections on the Hispanic Caribbean.” Invited speaker, Yale University (February 22nd).
2010 “Music, Race, and Religion in Cuba: Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.” University of Florida, Gainesville (February 3rd). “New Approaches to Teaching Music of the Hispanic Caribbean,” SEM national meeting, Los Angeles (November 13th).
2009 “Music and Revolution. Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba.” Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Michigan (December 7th). “Reflections on the Representation of Latin American Music in the Classroom.” Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Mexico City (November 22nd). “Music and Diaspora: Reflections on the Hispanic Caribbean.” University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, Center for Black Music Research conference (June 19th). “The Transnational History of the Bolero.” Trinity University Music Department, San Antonio (January 30th).
2008 “Reflections on Representations of Indigeneity in Latin American Music.” Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Middleton CT (October 25th) “Cuban Nueva Trova and the Left in Socialist Cuba. What’s Left of the Latin American Left conference, LLILAS, UT Austin (April 28th). “Music, Race, and Religion in Cuba: Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.” Vassar College (April 24th). “Music, Race, and Religion in Cuba: Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.” Florida International University, Graham Center (March 10th). “The Cultural Cold War Between Havana and Miami.” Tulane University, Virtual Caribbeans conference (February 29th). “Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.” Indiana University, Bloomington (April 2nd).
Vita, R. Moore, p. 8
References
Dr. Samuel Floyd. Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago. 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 60605-1996. Tel. (312)663-1600, ext. 5559. [email protected]
Dr. Peter Manuel. Professor, CUNY Graduate Center. 127 Park Ave., Leonia, NJ 07605. Office tel. (201)346-0247. [email protected]
Dr. Lester Monts. Professor. Office of the Provost, University of Michigan. Rm. 3084, Fleming Administration Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340. (734)764-3982. [email protected]