This workshop explores the different facets of cosmopolitanism, modernity, globality, locality, identity formation, national imaginaries, and constructions of difference in the transnational exchanges and technology networks of the twentieth- and twenty first-centuries; with a special emphasis in music, and exchanges between Latin America and the United States. Professors Alejandro Madrid (Cornell University and 2016 Visiting Professor at Harvard and Instituto Cervantes Observatorio), Brigid Cohen (New York University), Michael Birembaum-Quintero (Boston University), Daniel Party (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), and Chelsea Burns (Harvard University) will lead discussions and comment on the papers presented by ten graduate students. Graduate Students: Ian Copeland (Harvard), Laurie Lee (Harvard), John Dilworth (Harvard), Julio Zúñiga (Harvard), Matthew Leslie Santana (Harvard), Felipe Ledesma-Núñez (Harvard), Daniel Walden (Harvard), Sergio Ospina (Cornell), Melody Chapin (Brown), Sarah Town (Princeton).
Photo gallery: https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/galleries/photos/transnational-musical-modernities