Edgardo Salinas

Edgardo Salinas

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Edgardo Salinas is full-time Professor of Music History at The Juilliard School, where he teaches in the College and Graduate Studies divisions. Dr. Salinas earned a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology at Columbia University in May 2011.  He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer in Music at the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities. A native of Argentina, he received a "Licenciatura" in Piano Performance from the School of Music at Universidad Nacional de Rosario and first came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue Master's degrees in Piano Performance and Music History at Bowling Green State University. His research areas include Beethoven’s music and early romantic aesthetics, music and the history of media and technology, John Cage and the aesthetics of indeterminacy, and the political history of classical music in South America. He is currently completing a book that reappraises Beethoven’s reinvention of the piano sonata as a momentous event in the history of musical media and poetic mediation in the modern West. 

Selected publications: 

“The Form of Paradox as the Paradox of Form: Beethoven’s ’Tempest’, Schlegel’s Critique, and the Production of Absence”:

https://online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-abstract/33/4/483/63486/The-Form-of-Paradox-as-the-Paradox-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Beyond the Candelabra: The Liberace Show and the Remediation of Beethoven”:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-society-for-american-music/article/abs/beyond-the-candelabra-the-liberace-show-and-the-remediation-of-beethoven/B454580980DE128A95E5380C9AE3167F

Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America, edited by Alonso-Minutti, Herrera, and Madrid,” review-essay:

https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article/73/2/410/110753/Experimentalisms-in-Practice-Music-Perspectives