Pablo Palomino
Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
I am a cultural historian of 20th-century Latin America, Licenciado from the University of Buenos Aires, Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, and postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Chicago, before arriving to Oxford College in 2017.
In Buenos Aires, I worked at Memoria Abierta, Latin America's first Oral History Archive on state terrorism and political violence. My publications focus on the history of Latin American music, Pan-Americanism, the Jewish musical diaspora, modernist press in Argentina, the concept of "Global South," the musical relations betwen Latin America and Asia, and the global history of Argentine beef.
I wrote The Invention of Latin American Music: a Transnational History (Oxford University Press, 2020; La invención de la música latinoamericana: una historia transnacional in Spanish, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021).
A co-edited volume with Yuiko Asaba (University of London SOAS) on the musical exchanges between Asia and Latin America is currently under review.
The book I am writing now is a global history of Argentine beef in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Education
PhD| University of California, Berkeley| 2014
BA| Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)| 2005
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin American Music and Globalization
Food and the History of Globalization
History of the Caribbean
Global History of Capitalism and Commodities
Publications
Articles, book chapters, and other texts:
[Forthcoming, with Alberto Ferrari Etcheberry] “La carne del imperio: invernadores y chilled beef en el Pacto Roca-Runciman, 1933-1935,” in Encuentros y tensiones entre Sudamérica y Gran Bretaña (1806-1990), Universidad de San Andrés y Editorial Teseo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2026.
[Forthcoming] “Jews and Music in 20th-Century Latin America,” Encyclopedia of Jews in Latin America, vol. 5, Brill (Leiden-Boston), 2026.
“Latin America, Musically,” Book Review Essay, Latin American Research Review, 2025
(In Portuguese): “A indefinição é o regime: a América Latina na globalização musical, séculos XX e XXI,” in Giselle Venancio and Mariana Tavares (Orgs.) Americanidades: etnografias historiográficas, Fino Traço, Rio de Janeiro, 2025
“The Poetics of Golden Age Tango,” in Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango, Cambridge University Press, 2024
(Book review) Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas, eds., New World Orderings: China and the Global South (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023), Passés Futurs 14, 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.
“‘Europa’ en los orígenes del latinoamericanismo musical,” Eadem utraque Europa. Revista de Historia Cultural e Intelectual 21, 2020, p. 139-155
“On the Disadvantages of ‘Global South’ for Latin American Studies,” Journal of World Philosophies 4:2, Winter 2019, p. 22-39
“Nina Sibirtzeva, or the Hidden Half of Musical Globalization,” Journal of Social History 52:2, 2018, p. 260-282
“The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1920-1950,” in Amalia Ran and Moshe Morad (Eds.), Mazel Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas, Brill, 2016 (Society for Ethnomusicology’s inaugural Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize in 2018)
“Nationalist, Hemispheric, and Global: ‘Latin American Music’ and the Music Division of the Pan-American Union, 1939- 1947,” Nuevo Mundo – Mundos Nuevos / Nouveau Monde – Mondes Nouveaux (France), June 2015
Presentations
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[Forthcoming] Invited speaker at the Seminario de Historia Intelectual/Cultural de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa (Mexico), October 2026
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“A Steak in the World. Argentine Beef from the Atlantic World to China, 19th–21st Centuries,” History Department, Peking University, Beijing, June 2026
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“A Steak in the World. Argentine Beef from the Atlantic World to China, 19th–21st Centuries,” Institute of Latin American Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, June 2026
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“Writing the cultural history of Latin America through music and meat,” Anthropology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2025
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“El comercio anglo-argentino de chilled beef y el Acuerdo de Londres de 1933: invernadores e imperio en la historia global de la carne argentina,” Conferencia: 200 años del Tratado entre Gran Bretaña y las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata (1825-2025), Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, April 2025 (virtual)
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Co-organizer with Thomas Rogers and Lia Bascomb (GSU-GALACSI) of the Greater Atlanta Interdisciplinary Symposium, “Histories of Commodities and the Environment,” Emory University, February 28, 2025
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“Carne Argentina: History and Historiography of a Global Hyper-Commodity,” Revisiting Commodities in Latin American History: Cultural and Political Dimensions, American Historical Association / Conference on Latin American History, New York City, January 2025
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“The Poetics of Golden Age Tango, Then and Today,” Tango in the Humanities Conference, Emory University, November 2024.
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“Meat, nation and empire. Towards a global history of Argentine beef,” Dirty History Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 2024
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“L'Amérique latine et la mondialisation de la culture,” Coloquio Internacional “La construcción de las relaciones internacionales desde las Américas Latinas,” Sorbonne Nouvelle, Aubervilliers, France, May 2024
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“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
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“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), octubre 2023 (virtual)