Robin Moore, Professor and Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin, has received awards including fellowships from the ACLS, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His research interests include music and race, music curriculum reform, and music of Cuba and Latin America. His book publications include Nationalizing Blackness: afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), Music and Revolution Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (The University of California Press, 2006), Music in the Hispanic Caribbean (Oxford, 2010), Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance (Oxford, co-authored with Alejandro Madrid, 2013), College Music Curricula for a New Century (Oxford, 2017), Fernando Ortiz on Music (Temple University Press, 2018), and Violín. Mediating Musical Style and Devotional Practice in 21st-Century Cuba (Cambridge Press, 2025). Since 2005, he has edited the Latin American Music Review.
The most up-to-date and comprehensive Latin American music survey available. Covering one of the most musically diverse regions in the world, Musics of Latin America emphasizes music as a means of understanding culture and society: each author balances an analysis of musical genres with discussion of the historical and cultural trends that have shaped them. Chapters cover traditional, popular, and classical repertoire, and in-text listening guides ensure that students walk away with a solid understanding of the music.
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