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Latin American and Iberian Music

Begun in 2021, the Grove Music Online Ibero-Latin update project rethinks and updates coverage of music and musicians in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. Under the editorship of Walter A. Clark, this multi-year project will expand Grove’s coverage in this exciting area of music making. Countries and regions included, in order of commissioning, are:

To discover new and revised entries commissioned through this project click the links above.

 

Editor in Chief

Walter Aaron Clark

Walter Aaron Clark received his doctorate in musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the founder/director of UCR’s Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. He was the founding editor (2005-16) of Oxford University Press’s award-winning series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music, and he is now editor-in-chief of the Grove Dictionary of Latin American and Iberian Music, as well as of the refereed online journal Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review. He is the author of groundbreaking biographies of Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Federico Moreno Torroba (with William Krause), published by Oxford University Press, as well as Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar, from University of Illinois Press. His latest book is Joaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide, for Routledge. He is currently writing a co-authored biography (with Javier Suárez-Pajares) of Joaquín Rodrigo, for W. W. Norton, and co-editing (with Álvaro Torrente) The Cambridge History of Music in Spain. He is the recipient of Fulbright and NEH grants, and in 2016, King Felipe VI of Spain conferred on him the title of Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica, a Spanish knighthood, in recognition of his efforts to promote Spanish music and culture. 

 

Area Editors

Brazil

Rogério Budasz

Rogério Budasz (University of California, Riverside) is a musicologist interested in early plucked instruments, Luso-Brazilian musical theater, and Afro-Iberian musical connections. His most recent research focuses on the Atlantic circulation of musicians and repertories and the intertwined issues of power, ethnicity, and cultural reconfiguration. He has published three books, several book chapters, and a number of articles in Music & Letters, Early Music, Music & Art, Studi Musicali, and Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, among other venues.

Area Advisors

Paulo Castagna, Professor of Musicology, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

Suzel Ana Reily, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil 

Carlos Sandroni, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil

 

 

Central America

Bernard Gordillo Brockmann

Bernard Gordillo Brockmann, a native of Nicaragua, is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of History, Department of Musicology, and the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a historian of music in Latin America, focused on music, sound, and political histories of Central America in the twentieth century. His book project Canto de Marte: Art Music, Popular Culture, and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, 1909–1933 (under contract with Oxford University Press) is a social and cultural history of Nicaragua examined through the art and popular music, writings, and social networks of local composer Luis Abraham Delgadillo. He has published articles in the Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, and Ensayos: Historia y Teoría del Arte.

 

English and French Caribbean

Melvin L. Butler

Melvin L. Butler is Associate Dean of Academic Enhancement for Undergraduate Affairs and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Miami. From 2023 to 2025, he served as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He is the author of Island Gospel: Pentecostal Music and Identity in Jamaica and the United States (Illinois, 2019) as well as numerous articles examining how musical performance shapes religious experience, identity, and cultural politics throughout the African diaspora. An internationally acclaimed saxophonist, he has toured and recorded with Haitian konpa band Tabou Combo, Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, and numerous other artists.

 

Mexico

Leonora Saavedra

Leonora Saavedra is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Riverside. In 1985-87 she was the director of the National Center for Music Research (CENIDIM) in Mexico City, and in 2016 she occupied the Jesús C. Romero Chair at that institution. Her research centers upon Mexican music of the late-19th and 20th centuries, music and the State, exoticism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism, classical marxism, and the musico-political relations between Mexico and the United States. She is considered the leading expert on Carlos Chávez. She has presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music, as well as in conferences in the US, Mexico, Cuba, Belgium, Finland and the UK. She is the editor of Carlos Chávez and His World (Princeton, 2015), which was translated into Spanish and published by Mexico’s Colegio Nacional. Her publications include “Carlos Chávez and the Myth of the Aztec Renaissance,” in that volume, “Carlos Chávez’s Polysemic Style: Constructing the National, Seeking the Cosmopolitan” (JAMS, 2015), and the book La música mexicana de 1910 a 1930: conocimiento social y comunidad identitaria (Mexico, Cenidim, 2010).

 

Spain

Álvaro Torrente

Álvaro Torrente holds a degree in Musicology from the Universidad de Salamanca (1993) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1997). He is Professor in Music History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Chair of the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU), the main academic publisher for musicology in Spain, where has raised more than €8M of competitive funding. He has been Visiting Scholar at NYU (1999), Yale (2009), and Harvard (2025). His publications include La ópera en España e Hispanoamérica (with E. Casares, 2001), Devotional music in the Iberian World (with T. Knighton, 2007), which received the AMS Stevenson Award (2008), Historia de la Música en España e Hispanoamérica: La música en el siglo XVII (2016), and The Cambridge History of Music in Spain (with W. Clark and A. Llorens, 2025). He is also Associate Editor of The Operas of Francesco Cavalli (Bärenreiter), and his editions of early operas and zarzuelas earned the the Deustche Musikeditionpreis (2013) and have been performed at the Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Frankfurt Opera, Theater Basel, Teatro Real, Nederlandse Oper, and Museo del Prado. He is Principal Investigator of the project DIDONE: The Sources of Absolute Music, funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (2019-24), and co-PI of the DeepMusic project (2021-23) and the LexiMus project (2023-26), funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of Spain.

[photo credit: Jesús de Miguel/UCM]

Area Advisors

José Luis Besada, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

David Ferreiro, Associate Professor, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), Spain

Miguel Ángel Marín, Professor, Universidad de La Rioja, Spain

Ascensión Mazuela Anguita, Associate Professor, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Carmen Noheda, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, Madrid, Spain

Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Senior Musicologist, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales

Clara Viloria, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University