- Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2013
- M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2004
- B.M., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2002
Eduardo Herrera
Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
he/him
- eduherr@indiana.edu
- 812-855-3984
- 800 E. 3rd St., 216
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- Latin American and Latinx cultural practices
- Music and sound in sports and games
- Sound studies
- Soccer, masculinity, violence
- Coloniality/postcoloniality/decoloniality
- Ethnography of elites
- Experimental music studies
- Cultural diplomacy and philanthropy
Courses recently taught
- Issues in Latin American Music Studies
- The Study of Ethnomusicology
- Music, Meaning, and Emotion
- Paradigms in Ethnomusicology
Awards & Distinctions
- American Musicological Society Robert Stevenson Award for Elite Art Worlds Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-garde Music (2020)
- Harvard University, Visiting Associate Professor of Music (Spring 2021)
- University of Rochester Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow (2019–2020)
- Rutgers University, Research Council Grant Award, (2019–2020)
- Marcia Herndon Award, Society for Ethnomusicology’s Section on Gender and Sexualities, honorable mention for the article “Masculinity, Violence, and Soccer Chants: The Sonic Potentials of Participatory Sounding-in-Synchrony” (2019)
- American Musicological Society, Popular Music Study Group Junior Faculty Symposium (2016)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Internal Research Grant from the University of Victoria (Summer 2011)
- Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fellowship (2008–2009)
Books
Other publication highlights
- “This is (Not) America(n Music).” American Music (2022):433–443
- “Latin America and the Decolonization of Classical Music.” Open Access Musicology: Volume Two, eds. Daniel Barolsky and Louis Epstein. E-book, Ann Arbor, MI: Lever Press, 2023
- “Iannis Xenakis in Argentina: Reception, Dialogues, and Exchanges.” Twentieth Century Music 20 (2023): 1–16
- “Masculinity, Violence, and Soccer Chants: The Sonic Potentials of Participatory Sounding-in-Synchrony.” Ethnomusicology 62, no. 3 (2018): 470–499
- “Electroacoustic Music at CLAEM: A Pioneer Studio in Latin America.” Journal of the Society for American Music 12, no.2 (2018): 179–212
- “The Rockefeller Foundation and Latin American Music in the 1960s: The Creation of Indiana University’s LAMC and Di Tella Institute’s CLAEM.” American Music 35, no. 1 (2017): 51–74
- “Latin American Music as American Music.” Bulletin of the Society for American Music 42, no. 3 (2016) (Forum for Early Career Professionals)
- “El compositor uruguayo Coriún Aharonián: Música, ideología y el rol del compositor en la sociedad.” Latin American Music Review 34 (2013): 254–285
- “Austeridad, sintaxis no-discursiva y microprocesos en la obra de Coriún Aharonián.” Revista de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas 1 (2005): 23–65
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