Pablo Palomino
Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Mellon Faculty Fellow, 2017-2020)
Dr. Pablo Palomino is a cultural historian of modern Latin America. Licenciado from the University of Buenos Aires (in his hometown) and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, he was also postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies and History Department. His research and teaching focus on the transnational formation of Latin America as a cultural region.
He published the book The Invention of Latin American Music: a Transnational History with Oxford University Press in 2020 (La invención de la música latinoamericana: una historia transnacional in Spanish, by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2021). Palomino worked at Memoria Abierta, Latin America's first Oral History Archive on state terrorism and political violence. His articles deal with the history of music, Pan-Americanism, the Jewish musical diaspora, modernist press in Argentina, and the concept of "Global South."
He is currently working on the history of musical exchanges between Asia and Latin America, and on the global history of Argentine meat.
Education
PhD| University of California, Berkeley| 2014
BA| Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)| 2005
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
Progress: An Interdisciplinary Reflection (University Course)
Music and Globalization
History of the Caribbean
Food and the History of Globalization
Accomplishments
Emory University Research Council Fellowship (URC), 2020-2021
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010-11
Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2010-11
Publications
The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
[La invención de la música latinoamericana: una historia transnacional. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021]
Recent peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and short essays:
[Forthcoming] “The Poetics of Golden Age Tango,” in Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango, Cambridge University Press, 2024
“Revolutionary Music from War to Peace: Mexico, 1910s-1930s,” in Martin Guerpin, Anaïs Fléchet, Phillipe Gumplowicz, and Barbara Kelly (eds.), Music in Post-War Transitions (19th-21st centuries), Berghahn Books, 2023
“Discomforts of a Latin Americanist,” Forum on Global Music History, Journal of Musicology 40:3, Summer 2023
“Categories and Contexts. A Response to Esteban Buch and Vera Wolkowicz,” Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 23, 2023 (France)
“Becoming a Professional Historian in ‘Interesting Times’,” in Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives - Proceedings from the CLIR-Mellon Fellows Reunion Symposium, 2023, p. 96-8.
“Nina Sibirtzeva and Isa Kremer,” Forum on Latin American Jewish Studies, The Jewish Quarterly Review 111: 4, Fall 2021
“‘Europa’ en los orígenes del latinoamericanismo musical,” Eadem utraque Europa. Revista de Historia Cultural e Intelectual 21, Buenos Aires, 2020, p. 139-155
“The Travels of Latin American Music,” in Naxos Musicology International, October 2020
“On the Disadvantages of ‘Global South’ for Latin American Studies,” Journal of World Philosophies 4:2, Winter 2019
“Nina Sibirtzeva, or the hidden half of musical globalization,” Journal of Social History 52:2, Winter 2018
Presentations
[Forthcoming] “The Beef’s Two Bodies: A Study in Twentieth-Century Anglo-Argentine Meat Culture,” Panel “The Body in Latin American History,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2024.
[Forthcoming, Invited] “Notas sobre la historia de la circulación musical entre América Latina y Asia,” 2˚ Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza y Producción de las Artes en América Latina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), October 2023 [Virtual]
[Invited] “A Historiographic Approach to the History of Latin American Music,” Seminario Permanente en Historiografía, Doctorado Interuniversitario en Musicología, Universities of La Rioja, Valladolid, and Complutense de Madrid (Spain), November 2022 [Virtual]
[Invited] “Notas para una agenda de investigación sobre la carne argentina en la historia global,” Taller de Historia Global, Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina), July 6, 2022
[Organizer and Presenter] “‘Asia’ in Early Pan-Regionalist Discourses on ‘Latin American’ Music” (Panel “Asia-Latin America as Performance and Knowledge: Decentering Global Music History in the 20th Century”), Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Hawai’i, March 2022
[Invited] Roundtable “Centering Discomfort in Global Music History,” American Musicological Society (AMS), Chicago, November 2021
[Organizer and Presenter] “An Absent Other? Searching for Asia in the Origins of Latin Americanist Musicology,” Panel “Musical travels between Latin America and Asia,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Virtual Congress, May 2021.
[Chair and Presenter] Roundtable “Where has the ‘Cultural Turn’ taken Latin American History?”, SECOLAS Virtual Conference, April 2021.
[Chair and Presenter] “New Directions in Latin American History,” American Historical Association – Council on Latin American History (AHA-CLAH), Seattle, January 2021 (virtual conference)
“Jewish musical migrations and ‘Latin American culture’ in the 1930s and 1940s,” Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington D.C., December 2020 (virtual conference)
“Latin American, Latinx, Hispanic? The geo-cultural categories of Latin American Studies in US academia,” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Austin, Texas, March 2020
“Mapping the Geo-Cultural Categories of Latin American Studies in the United States,” 23rd Annual Conference on the Americas, University of North Georgia (UNG), February 2020
Research Interests
Spaces: Latin America and the Caribbean; Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico; Latin America and/in the United States
Subjects: music, meat, Latin Americanism, Jewish Latin Americans, globalization
Publications available on academia.edu