Ibero-American Music Readings

Ana Alonso-Minutti is Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Chair of the Department of Music at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Mario Lavista: Mirrors of Sounds (Oxford University Press, 2023), which received the Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society. Her research explores experimental sound practices, as well as music traditions from Mexico and the US-Mexico borderlands, engaging with Latina/Chicana feminist and queer theories, critical race studies, and decolonial methodologies. Beyond her scholarship, she composed Voces del desierto, a multi-movement choral work that won the 2021 Robert M. Stevenson Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. In 2024, she was appointed to the Distinguished Lectureship Cátedra Jesús C. Romero by Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge UP).

Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus is an oboist and musicologist in UNAM’s Postgraduate Program in Music. His activity as a performer and researcher has focused on the work of Silvestre Revueltas. He is the author of the recently published Annotated Catalog of Works by this composer and compiler of the Silvestre Revueltas Digital Library, which includes the digitisation and reasoned cataloguing of the collection of his writings and scores. He has rescued and recorded several unpublished scores by Silvestre Revueltas. His books include Sensemayá: un juego de espejos entre música y poesía; Contracanto: una perspectiva semiótica de la obra temprana de Silvestre Revueltas; and the most recent, Silvestre Revueltas, Sounds of a Political Passion, commissioned by Oxford University Press. He is the author of a considerable number of essays published in Spanish, German, and English, in prestigious publishing houses such as Routledge/Ashgate, Böhlau Verlag, Princeton University Press, Breitkopf & Härtel, Acta Semiotica Fennica, and in indexed magazines of international circulation, such as The Journal of Film Music, Latin American Music Review, and Journal of the Society for American Music.

Luisa Vilar-Payá’s research focuses on the relationship between music and politics, with music analysis as a key factor of historical reception. Her publications in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and the United States are centered around Novohispanic music, women composers, and music of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has served as Dean of Arts and Humanities as well as Dean of Social Sciences at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA from Columbia University.