Diversity, tokenism, non-canonic music, And the crisis of the humanities in Academia in the United States
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Alejandro Madrid L., Cornell University
Alejandro L. Madrid is a professor at Cornell University and guest editor of the “Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music” series at Oxford University Press. His work focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization and identity in popular music, artistic music, dance and expressive culture of Mexico, the border between the United States and Mexico, and the Caribbean. His interests include the performance of democratic values through music, the role of the media and technology; Issues of continuity, change, cosmopolitanism and race in Latin American music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; and transnationalism, gender, and culture embodied in contemporary popular music. In his extensive production, among other texts, “In Search of Julian Carrillo” stand out, a book with which he won the Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Society of Musicology in 2016 and the cousin Mexico Humanities Book Award in 2016; "Danzon. CircumCaribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance ”, a book he wrote with Robin Moore and was the winner of the Robert M. Stevenson of the American Society of Musicology and Béla Bartók Award of the ASCAP Foundation in 2014; and "The sounds of the modern nation: music, culture and ideas in post-revolutionary Mexico, 19201930" winner of the Casa de las Américas Musicology Award in 2005.
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