Dr. Eduardo Herrera

Eduardo Herrera (he/him/his) is Associate Professor of Musicology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He specializes in contemporary musical practices from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx peoples in the United States from historical and ethnographic perspectives. His research topics include Argentine and Uruguayan avant-garde music, soccer chants as participatory music making, and music and postcoloniality in Latin America.

Herrera first book, Elite Art Worlds: Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-Garde Music (Oxford University Press, 2020) explores the history of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (1962–1971) as a meeting point for local and transnational philanthropy, the framing of pan-regional discourses of Latin Americanism, and the aesthetics and desires of high modernity.

His work can be found in the Journal for the Society of American Music, Latin American Music Review, American Music. Herrera’s article in Ethnomusicology, “Masculinity, Violence, and Deindividuation” was awarded the honorable mention of the Marcia Herndon Prize for studies on gender and sexuality at the Society for Ethnomusicology.