Dr. Robin Moore

Biography

Robin D. Moore is a Professor at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Ethnomusicology. He has received prestigious fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. His research interests encompass the intersections of music and race, music curriculum reform, and the music of Cuba and Latin America. Moore has authored several significant books, including "Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998), "Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba" (The University of California Press, 2006), and "Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues on Music and Dance" (Oxford University Press, 2013). He served as the editor of the Latin American Music Review in 2005 and teaches various courses focusing on music culture and methodologies in ethnomusicology. With a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Arts from UC Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor of Arts, Moore is deeply involved in research areas that connect music, culture, and societal change across Caribbean regions.

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