Robin Moore

Robin Moore is a Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the intersections of music, race, nationalism, and socialist art aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has authored significant works including Nationalizing Blackness, Music and Revolution, and Music of the Hispanic Caribbean.

• Key Research Areas: African Diaspora music, Cuban music, Caribbean music, race relations in music, music curriculum reform
• Academic Contributions: Co-author of Danzón: Circum-Caribbean Dialogues in Music and Dance, which explores the hybrid origins of danzón and its influence on early jazz in New Orleans

Scientific Awards:

• Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology Book
• Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society