Authors Amplified Series: Pablo Palomino’s ‘The Invention of Latin American Music’

Global Atlanta’s Authors Amplified series highlighting Georgia voices continues with a virtual interview with Dr. Pablo Palomino, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Mellon Faculty Fellow at Oxford College of Emory University and author of the recently released book The Invention of Latin American Music.

About the Book

The Invention of Latin American Music offers a transnational history of Latin America as a region, it uses a multidisciplinary approach to connect music with society, culture, and politics, and lastly, it challenges the ethnocentric assumptions and preconceptions about Latin America’s unity.

Speaker Bio

Pablo Palomino is a cultural historian with a specialization in modern Latin America and teaches at Emory University’s Oxford College. A native of Argentina and Licenciado from the University of Buenos Aires, he did his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and was also a postdoctoral lecturer at the University of Chicago.

His first book, The Invention of Latin American Music. A Transnational History (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-invention-of-latin-american-music-9780190687410?lang=en&cc=us), was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His research and teaching include the transnational cultural history of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the formation of Latin America as a region. Palomino worked at Memoria Abierta, an Argentine alliance of human rights organizations that created Latin America’s first Oral History Archive on state terrorism and political violence. His articles deal with the cultural history of music, Pan-Americanism, the Jewish diaspora in Latin America, modernist press in Argentina, and the critique of the concept of “Global South.” He is currently working on two global histories: the cultural history of Argentine meat, and the history of “Latin America” as a conceptual and institutional category.

He lives in Atlanta since 2017 and is enamored of the city and fascinated by its relations to the nation and the globe.

About the Series

Georgia’s deep pool of international expertise is sometimes hidden in the ivory towers of academia or overshadowed by looming national figures. Sought-after thought leaders sometimes shine globally while being ignored in their own backyard.

With Authors Amplified, a monthly series of book talks open to subscribers and the public, Global Atlanta showcases authoritative local voices in foreign affairs and international business while highlighting the state’s intellectual contributions to important global conversations.

The Authors Amplified series is presented by the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), a partnership of Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, funded in part by a US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant, with a mission to empower the metro region’s global agenda.