School of Music Faculty Member Researches Relationship Between Music and Modernity – CSUF News

Cal State Fullerton School of Music faculty member Hermann Hudde researches the relationship between art music and modernity, focusing on a selected group of Latinx/American art music composers in the United States.
Latina/o/x/American art and popular music, despite possessing a musical and cultural history, must constantly negotiate vis-à-vis Western modernity’s ethnocentric and epistemological hierarchies.
Hudde’s journal article “Reescritura, memoria y emociones: ¿Existe una crónica musical contemporánea del continente americano en la música de Miguel del Águila?” discusses the role of del Águila’s music as a musical chronicle related to memory and belonging. In 2021, this text won a second prize in the Otto Mayer-Serra Award and was published in Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review.
His most recent journal article, “Max Lifchitz: A Transmodern Composer in American Music?” in the Journal of the Society for American Music demonstrates how Enrique Dussel’s trans-modern philosophy relates to art music beyond the Eurocentric border known as postmodernity. 
Because of his expertise, the Latino Studies section of “Oxford Bibliographies” contracted Hudde to write music entries. There are two already published — Celia Cruz and Carlos Santana — and he is submitting one soon about Salsa. The fourth one engages with Latin Rock.
His chapter, “Bernstein and Latin America,” was published in the “Bernstein in Context” volume, invited by the editor Elizabeth A. Wells.
Contact:
Hermann Hudde
hhudde@Fullerton.edu
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