PUBLICATIONS

 Book Chapters

“El piano y el nacionalismo musical mexicano en la colección de piezas de la biblioteca Newberry”, in De Nueva España a México: el universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517-1917), Baeza: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, (2020).

 Manuscripts in Preparation

Book: Musical Encounters: Music, Politics, and Identity in the United States-Mexico Borderlands

“The Seegers, the Lomaxes, and the Crossroads of American Music”

“Hearing America in the New Millenium: Nationalism in U.S. Popular Music after 9/11”

“Binational Indianism in James Demars’s Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Roses

“Clave is the Key… To What?: The Use of Clave in Mexican Rock”

Dissertation and Theses

“Music and the Binational Imagination: The Musical Nationalisms of Mexico and the United States in the Context of the Binational Relationship, 1890- 2009” PhD Diss. University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, 2009

“Aaron Copland and Carlos Chávez: A Friendship in Music” BA Thesis. University of Charleston, 1998

INVITED TALKS

“Immigration and Representation of Self and Other in U.S. and Mexican Popular Music” (Illinois State University Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program, November 9, 2018)                                                                                       

“Latin American Art Music” (Arizona Musicfest, March 23, 2018)

“Music on the U.S.-Mexico Border” (Arizona Musicfest, April 2019)   

“Copland and Chávez: A Friendship in Music” (Dickinson College, October 6, 2005)

“Mexican Folk Music” (Dickinson College, October 27, 2005)

Pre-Concert Lecture: “Brahms and Friends” Concert (Handel Choir of Baltimore, February 26, 2005)

Conference papers

“Modern Indianism in James Demars’s Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Roses” (American Musicological Society – Midwest Chapter, 2020)

“Hearing America in the New Millenium: Nationalism in U.S. Popular Music after 9/11” (International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Branch, 2019)

“Invented Roots and Far-Flung Branches: The Influence of the Seegers and the Lomaxes on American Popular Music” (American Musicological Society – Midwest Chapter, 2018)

“Women, War, and the Piano in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Mexican Musical Life in the Newberry Library’s Collection of piano pieces” (American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter, 2018)

 “El piano y el nacionalismo musical mexicano en la colección de piezas de la biblioteca Newberry” (Congreso Internacional “De Nueva España a México: el universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517-1917),” Sociedad Española de Musicología, 2017)

“Hearing America in the New Millenium: Nationalism in U.S. Popular Music after 9/11” (American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter, 2017))

 “The Seegers, the Lomaxes, and the Crossroads of American Music” (American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter, 2014)

“Clave is the Key... To What?: The Use of Clave in Mexican Rock” (International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch, 2013)

“Binational Indianism in James Demars’s Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Roses” (American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter, 2010)

“North, South and In-Between: Carlos Chávez’s Horse Power” (American Musicological Society – Pacific Southwest Chapter, 2009)

“Of Tourists, Indians, and Pioneers: Copland, Chávez, and U.S.-Mexico Relations” (American Musicological Society – Capital Chapter, 2007)

“Immigration and Free Trade in American and Mexican Popular Music” (International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch, 2006)

“Binational Rock: Images of Self and Other in American and Mexican Rock Music” (Music, Performance and Racial Imaginations Conference at NYU, 2005)

“The Politics of Race and National Identity: Indianism and Musical Nationalism in the United States and Mexico” (International Musicological Society –Symposium, 2004)

“You and Me and All Our Friends: The Creation of Community in the Music of Dave Matthews Band” (Interdisciplinary Studies in Popular Music Conference at UC Santa Barbara, 2004)

“Beyond Nationalism: Manuel M. Ponce’s Chapultepec” (Society for American Music – National Conference, 2003)

“Hecho en México: El Nacionalismo y el Rock Mexicano” (International Association for the Study of Popular Music – Latin American Branch, 2002)

“The Art of the Mexican Revolution” ( Blue Ridge Undergraduate Research Conference, 1998)