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0147 ARTS
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Saavedra, Leonora

Associate Professor of Music

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Music


Biography

Professor Saavedra joins UCR from the University of Pittsburgh and the National Center for Music Research (CENIDIM) in Mexico City. Her recent research centers upon the changing constructions of self and other in the Mexican musical imaginary, and upon the role of historiography in transmitting and sustaining such constructions. Her work embraces all living musical traditions of Mexico and their histories. She is particularly interested in the ways in which nations negotiate internal and external relations of power through the representation of the national in music. She is also interested in the relations between music, social class and the state. Her work draws on Marxism, and post-colonial and subaltern studies. Before moving to the US, Professor Saavedra was active in Mexico­ where artists and intellectuals play public roles that aim at impacting society at large­ as researchers and performers of new Mexican music and as cultural administrators.

Publications


Books


Musica Mexicana Contemporeanea. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica de la Universidad, pp 241. (by Maria Angeles Gonzales, Leonora Saavedra), 1982. Non-refereed (solicited).