2025 Underwriting Recipient

Javier Marín-López, PhD ~ Vestiges of Hispanic Colonial Music in the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music

Javier Marín-López (Úbeda, Spain) is Professor of Musicology at the Universidad de Jaén, where he specializes in Latin American, Spanish, and U.S. Southwest musical cultures from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. His research focuses on the dynamics of transatlantic exchange, exploring how music circulated across the Ibero-American world and beyond, and has been recognized with awards such as the Samuel Claro Valdés Prize (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) and an Honorable Mention in the Otto Mayer-Serra Award (University of California, Riverside). He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology (with distinction) from the Universidad de Granada and has authored or edited over twenty-five volumes, including critical studies and editions such as Los libros de polifonía de la Catedral de México (2 vols., 2012) and Ignacio Jerusalem: Obras selectas-Selected Works, a landmark bilingual series published with Drew Edward Davies by Dairea Ediciones. His scholarship contributes to redefining the contours of global music history through an emphasis on connected musicologies, colonial soundscapes, and archival recovery. Notable among his editorial work are Músicas coloniales a debate: procesos de intercambio euroamericanos (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2018), De Nueva España a México: el universo musical mexicanos entre centenarios (1517-1917) (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 2020), and Músicas iberoamericanas interconectadas: caminos, circuitos y redes (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2023), collectives volume examining musical exchange through the lens of network theory.

Since 2007, he has served as Artistic Director of the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza, an internationally recognized event that promotes historical performance and the rediscovery of Iberian and Latin American repertoire. His leadership has steered the festival into a dynamic platform for research-based programming and innovative outreach projects. He has also co-produced landmark albums and co-curated the XXV Aniversario live recordings, which document the festival’s legacy.

His international collaborations include research projects, editions, and performances with institutions such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, and the University of New Mexico, where he was named a Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar in 2024 by the Latin American & Iberian Institute. He is also a frequent contributor to leading journals, including Early Music, Latin American Music Review, and Revista de Musicología.

A prominent advocate for historical musicology and digital humanities, Marín-López is involved in platforms such as Books of Hispanic Polyphony IMF-CSIC (BHP) and has curated scholarly events and open-access resources to broaden the accessibility of Hispanic musical heritage. He regularly serves on editorial boards and international committees, and has co-directed projects on music and conflict, music and migration, and the role of music in shaping political memory.

More information, including links to publications, recordings, and projects, is available at his Linktree page.

Here are Javier's mid-term and final reports.

Below Dr. Marín-López examines the discographic reception of Latin American colonial music by analyzing samples from different genres, mostly of sacred music, with diverse vocal and instrumental configurations. His talk considers the role recordings have had in the creation of communities and imagined identities by modern audiences.

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