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
robin.moore@mail.utexas.edu

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.

Recent Field Research

2008 Havana, Cuba (4 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.
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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.
2001 Havana, Cuba (1 month): Research on socialist music education.
1998 Cali, Colombia (2 months): African-derived musical styles of the Chocó region.

Awards, Prizes

2008 Mellon Research Travel Grant for summer work in Havana, Cuba.
2007 Big XII Faculty Fellowship Grant for lectures at the University of Kansas.
2005 Library Research Grant from Florida International University for work with the
Cristóbal Díaz Ayala music archive, Miami.
2004-5 Residency Fellowship, The National Humanities Center, North Carolina
2003 Summer Research Grant, Temple University.
2001 Spring Semester Sabbatical Leave (one of four granted to non-tenured faculty),
Temple University.
1998 Gustave O. Arlt Award, The Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, D.C. Given
each year to “a young scholar teaching in the humanities at an American university
who...has published a book deemed to be of outstanding scholarly significance.”
1996 Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Residency and Travel Grant.
1992-4 MacArthur Foundation Peace and Security Research Grant for dissertation research.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Ethnomusicology (graduate)

Analytical Methods in Ethnomusicology (graduate)
Ethnomusicology for Music Therapists (graduate)
Music, Race, and Nationalism (graduate)
Music and Cultural History (graduate)
Studies in Popular Music (graduate)
Music of Mexico and the Caribbean (undergraduate)
Music of Central and South America (graduate/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)
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Current Professional Service

—Editor, Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana

—Advisory Board, Journal of Black Music Research
—Co-Founder, Society For Ethnomusicology Southern Plains (with Eileen
Hayes)
—Program Committee, Society For Ethnomusicology Conference 2008
—Society for Ethnomusicology Council member

Recent Manuscript Reviews Submitted To:

Cuban Studies
Ethnomusicology
Journal of Black Music Research
Journal of the Society for American Music
Music of the United States of America Editions
University of California Press

Performance

2006- Director, The University of Texas 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
In press Musics of Latin America. New York: W.W. Norton.

Books
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.
1997 Nationalizing Blackness: afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-
1940. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press. 320 pp.

Articles
Under review “The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century.” In
Thomas Turino and Donna Buchanan, eds., Performativity, Power, and the Poetics of
Being: Soundscapes from the Americas. Austin: University of Texas Press.
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In press “Havana in the nueva trova repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso.” In Amanda Holmes and
Richard Young, eds., Culture, the City and Identity in Latin America. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
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.
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.
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Other Publications

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.
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.
1994 “Reflections on 1990s Havana.” Institute of Latin American Studies Newsletter vol.
27 #3 (Spring 1994), pp. 9, 16. Austin: The Univ. of Texas at Austin.
1993 “Directory of Latin American and Caribbean Music Theses and Dissertations Since
1988.” Latin American Music Review 14 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1993).

Reviews
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
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Perspectives on Caribbean Cinema: Part I.” Caribbean Studies, vol. 36 no. 2, pp. 241-
44.
2006 Review of National Rhythms, African Roots. The Deep History of Latin American
Popular Dance by John Charles Chasteen. Cuban Studies 37, pp. 191-93.
2006 Review of Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895, by Jill Lane. Latin American Music Review
vol. 27 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2006), pp. 108-12.
2004 Review of The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture
in Cali, Colombia by Lise Waxer. Ethnomusicology vol. 48 no. 3 (Fall 2004), pp. 451-
53.
2003 Review of Culturas encontradas, ed. Rafael Hernández and John H. Coatsworth. The
Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History Volume 60,
Number 2 (October 2003), pp. 294-296.
2001 Review of Music in Cuba by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Alan West-Durán and
edited by Timothy Brennan. Latin American Music Review vol. 22 no. 2 (Fall/ Winter
2001) pp. 255-258.
2001 Review of Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rainforest by Dale
Olsen. Ethnomusicology (Spring/Summer 2001), pp. 359-361.
2000 Review of Music in Latin American Culture: Regional Traditions, ed. by John
Schechter. Fontes Artis Musicae vol 47 #1 (Jan-Mar 2000) pp. 74-76.
2000 Review of Latin Jazz: The First of the Fusions, 1880 to Today by John Storm
Roberts. Fontes Artis Musicae vol 47 #1 (Jan-Mar 2000) pp. 72-74.
2000 Review of the compact discs The Bahamas: Islands of Song and Cuba in
Washington, both released by Smithsonian Folkways. Ethnomusicology vol. 44
no. 2 (Spring-Summer 2000), pp. 354-56.
1998 Review of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets by Timothy D. Taylor.
Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association vol. 55 no. 1
(September 1998), pp. 130-132.
1998 Review of Carnival Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the making by John
Cowley. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association vol 54 no. 1
(September 1998), pp. 87-89.
1997 Review of Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity by Paul
Austerlitz. Yearbook for Traditional Music vol. 29 (1997), pp. 162-163.
1996 Review of Cuando salí de la Habana, 1898-1997. Cien años de música cubana por el
Mundo by Cristóbal Díaz Ayala. Latin American Music Review vol. 20 no. 2
(Fall/Winter 1999), pp. 319-321.
1996 Review of Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York
Communities, 1917-1940 by Ruth Glasser. Hispanic American Historical Review vol.
76 no.4 (November 1996), pp. 761-63.
1996 Review of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music From Rumba to Reggae, ed.
Peter Manuel. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association vol. 53 #1
(September 1996), pp. 89-91.
1996 Review of Cuba canta y baila: Discografía de la música cubana vol. 1, 1898 a 1925
by Cristóbal Díaz Ayala. Latin American Music Review vol. 17 no. 1 (Spring-Summer
1996), pp. 78, 81.
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Recent Scholarly Presentations

2010
“Music, Race, and Religion in Cuba: Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.”
University of Florida, Gainesville (February 3rd).

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).

2007
“Music and Revolution. Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba.” UCLA History Department
(November 19th).
“Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo.” UC Riverside Music Department (November
21st).
“Musical Politics in Contemporary Argentina.” Annual Society for Ethnomusicology
Meeting, Columbus Ohio (October 26th).
“Reflections on Music and Politics in Contemporary Argentina.” Society for
Ethnomusicology meeting, Columbus Ohio (October 26th).
“Afro-Cuban Culture and Musical Nationalism.” NEH Seminar, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee (July 18th).
“Revolution, Folklore, and Transgression: Reflections on the career of Pedro Izquierdo.”
Institute of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois Chicago (April
23rd).
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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.
saf946@att.net

Dr. Peter Manuel. Professor, CUNY Graduate Center. 127 Park Ave., Leonia, NJ 07605.
Office tel. (201)346-0247. petermanuel3@aol.com

Dr. Lester Monts. Professor. Office of the Provost, University of Michigan. Rm. 3084,
Fleming Administration Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340. (734)764-3982.
lmonts@umich.edu