The Musicology Department and the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music are delighted to present two lectures by Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University, as part of the Jacobs Distinguished Lecture Series.
Lecture Schedule
Thursday, April 10 | 5:00 PM
Simon Music Center, Room 344
Aurality, Materiality, and the Julián Carrillo Pianos as Archives
Friday, April 11 | 12:45 PM
Simon Music Center, Ford Hall
Silvio Rodríguez’s ‘Días y flores’: Microhistory of a Utopia at the End of History
About Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid
Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid is a distinguished cultural theorist of sound and music specializing in Latin American and Latinx studies. As the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University, he has significantly contributed to Ibero-American music studies through his extensive scholarship, including nine books and numerous influential articles. His work, which spans popular, folk, and art musics from multi-methodological perspectives, has been recognized for its ability to bridge disciplines and spark critical conversations in musicology and ethnomusicology.
Dr. Madrid has been honored with prestigious awards such as the Humboldt Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Dent Medal from the International Musicological Society and the Royal Musical Association. He has also received top honors from the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), the ASCAP Foundation, and the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). Additionally, he has been recognized with Cuba’s Premio de Musicología Casa de las Américas and Chile’s Premio de Musicología Samuel Claro Valdés.
Dr. Madrid’s current research includes a forthcoming book, The Archive and the Aural City: Gimmicks, Networks, Utopias, and the Logic of Archival Knowledge at the Sonic Turn, as well as a study of Silvio Rodríguez’s groundbreaking Días y flores album. He is also collaborating with the Momenta Quartet on a 5-CD recording project featuring the complete string quartet works of Mexican microtonalist Julián Carrillo for the Naxos label.
Beyond academia, Dr. Madrid serves as the editor of Oxford University Press’s Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music series and frequently provides expert commentary for international media. Notably, he acted as a music advisor for filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015).
For more on Dr. Madrid’s work, visit his Harvard faculty page or his Wikipedia page.
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