Alejandro L. Madrid PhD, Assistant Professor

Latin American and Latino Studies Program (MC219) 

University Hall University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7115
Phone:  ; Fax:  312-996-1796

e-mail: almadrid@uic.edu

In Brief

Assistant Professor at LALS. Alejandro is a musicologist and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization, and identity in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His book Los sonidos de la nación moderna. Música, cultura e ideas en el México post-revolucionario, 1920-1930 won the prestigious biennial Casa de las Américas Award for Latin American Musicology (2005). His current research interests include transnational history and method, performance studies, and postnational theory. He holds a PhD in musicology and comparative cultural studies from The Ohio State University

Current Status

Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Education

 2003--Ph.D., Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies, The Ohio State University.
1999--M.M., Musicology, University of North Texas.
1995--M.F.A., Music, State University of New York at Purchase.
1992—B.M., Music, The Boston Conservatory.  

Areas of Specialization 
Critical and Cultural Musicology; Latin American Art and Popular Musics; Late 19th- and 20th-Century Western Art Music; Electronic Dance Music; Afro-Mexican Expressive Culture; Transnational History; Border Studies; Critical and Performance Theories; Globalization and Postnationality.

Books

 Ignacio Corona and Alejandro L. Madrid, eds., Postnational Musical Identities. Cultural Production, Distribution and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, in press).

Los sonidos de la nación moderna. Música, cultura e ideas en el México post-revolucionario, 1920-1930 (La Habana: Casa de las Américas, in press).

Nortec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World (New York: Oxford University Press, in progress).
The Sounds of the Modern Nation. Music. Culture and Ideas in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1920-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, in preparation).

Selected Articles
“The Sounds of the Nation: Visions of Modernity and Tradition in Mexico’s First National Congress of Music.” Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 4 (2006). 

“Dancing with Desire. Cultural Embodiment and Negotiation in Tijuana’s Nor-tec Music and Dance.” Popular Music, Vol. 25, No. 3 (2006).

“Reapropiación y estética kitsch en ‘Tijuana Makes Me Happy’ del Colectivo Nortec.” Brújula. Revista Interdisciplinaria Sobre Estudios Latinoamericanos, Vol. 5. No. 1 (2006).

“Imagining Modernity, Revising Tradition. Nor-tec Music in Tijuana and Other Borders.” Popular Music and Society, Vol. 28, No. 5 (2005).

“Navigating Ideologies in ‘In-Between’ Cultures. Signifying Practices in Nor-tec Music.” Latin American Music Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (2003).

                “Transculturación, performatividad e identidad en la Sinfonía No. 1 de Julián Carrillo.” Resonancias, No. 12 (2003).

"Prácticas de significación e identidad. Los estudios culturales y la musicología." Fragmentos de cultura, Vol. XII, No. 5 (2002).

"Modernismo, futurismo y kenosis: Las canciones de Átropo según Julián Carrillo y Carlos Chávez." Heterofonía, Vol. XXXIII, No.123 (2000).

Selected Reviews
“Otra visión de la música cubana by Leonardo Acosta.” Latin American Music Review (forthcoming).

“Musical Ritual in Mexico City. From the Aztec to NAFTA by Mark Pedeltey.” Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming)

“Pachangas: Borderlands Music, U.S. Politics, and Transnational Marketing by Margaret E. Dorsey.” Latino Studies (forthcoming).      

“El mar de los deseos. El caribe hispano musical: Historia y contrapunto by Antonio García de León Griego.” the world of music, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2005).

“Jefe de jefes. Corridos y narcocultura en México by José Manuel Valenzuela.” Ethnomusicology, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2005).

Selected Awards and Honors

10th Biennial Casa de las Américas International Prize for Latin American Musicology, 2005.

Genaro Estrada Fellowship for Research in the Humanities, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 2004.

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, National Research Council, 2002-2003.

3rd Biennial Samuel Claro Valdés International Prize for Latin American Musicology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2002.

A-R Editions Award, American Musicological Society, Midwest Chapter, 2001-2002.

Outstanding Graduate Achievement Award in Musicology, School of Music, The Ohio State University, 2001.

Service to the Profession
Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago: Interdisciplinary PhD Committee Member (2006-present).

Latin American Music Review: Advisory Board Member (2006-present).

Society for Ethnomusicology: Council Member (2006-2009).

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)-US Branch: Open Seat in the Executive Committee (2006-2008).

IASPM-Latin American Branch: Academic Committee Member (2006).

Woody Guthrie Book Award of the IASPM-US: Selection Committee Chair (2005).

IASPM-US National Congress: Program Committee Member (2004).

IASPM-US National Congress: Latin American Session Moderator (2004).

Referee Service: Journal of the American Musicological Society, Leonardo Music Journal, Popular Music and Society, and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Press (2000-present).