Brief ResumÈ

BRENDA M. ROMERO

DEGREES

Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology

Dissertation: ≥Matachines Music and Dance in San Juan Pueblo and

Alcalde, New Mexico: Contexts and Meanings≤

M.Mus. 1986 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Music Theory and Composition

B.Mus. 1983 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Music Theory and Composition

(With Distinction)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2000 - Present Associate Professor, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder

2001 Visiting Scholar at the Universidad AutÛnoma de MÈxico, Escuela de

M˙sica. Spring seminar on the Matachines Danza and Music of New

Mexico and Mexico. April 2 - 6

1993 - 2000 Assistant Professor, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder

Summer, 1995 Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of New Mexico, Music

Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Book Chapters

2005 ≥Las Inditas.≤ Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, edited

by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. Gonz·lez. New York: Oxford University Press

2004 ≥Penitentes,≤ ≥Lila Downs,≤ entries for the Encyclopedia of Latino Popular

Culture in the United States, edited by Cordelia Chavez Candelaria, Arturo J.

Aldama, Peter J. Garcia, and Almaä Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing

Group, Inc

2003 "The New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico Borderlands and the Concept of Indio in

the Matachines Dance." Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past

and Present. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Volume XI. Los

Angeles: The Regents of the University of California, 81-7

2002 "Profile of an Ethnomusicologist" for Garland Encyclopedia of Music: General

Music, volume 10, edited by Ruth Stone. New York: Routledge

2002 "La Indita of New Mexico: Gender and Cultural Identification," in Chicana

Traditions, Continuity and Change, edited by Olga Najera-Ramirez and Norma

Cantu. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 56-80

2002 "Latino Musical Communities in New Mexico and Colorado" (Vol. 5); Bluegrass

and Oldtime on the Front Range" (Vol. 3); and "Pueblo Musical Communities"

(Vol. 1) for American Musical Traditions, edited by Jeff Todd Titon and Bob

Carlin. New York: Schirmer Reference

2001 "La Creciente popularidad del mariachi en los Estados Unidos≤ The Growing

Popularity of Mariachi in the United States." De Occidente es el mariachi, y de

MÈxico..., edited by ¡lvaro Ochoa Serrano. Zamora, MÈxico: El Colegio de

Michoac·n, pp. 171-180

2000 "Great Basin Music" in the Garland Encyclopedia of Music, The United States and Canada. Volume 3, edited by Ellen Koskoff. New York: Routledge, pp. 420-427

2000 "Great Lakes Music" for the Garland Encyclopedia of Music, The United States

and Canada. Volume 3, edited by Ellen Koskoff. New York: Routledge, pp.

451-60

2000 "Soundscapes of the Native Southwest," for the Plateau Journal, Sedona,

Arizona: The Grand Canyon Association and the Museum of Northern Arizona,

Winter 2000-2001, pp. 42-56

Book and Recording Reviews

2005 Review of Banda, Musical Life across Borders by Helena Simonett. Middletown,

Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, for Ethnomusicology 49, No. 2

Spring/Summer

2002 Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and

Arrangements, by Victoria Lindsay-Levine, for the American Music Research

Center Journal, edited by Thomas Riis. Boulder: University of Colorado, 99-102

2000 Review of Fariseos y Matachines en la Sierra Tarahumara, by Carlo Bonfiglioli,

for the Ethnomusicology 40, No. 1Winter, 527-28

2000 Review of M˙sica de la Raza: Mexican and Chicano Music in Minnesota. CD

with 76-page illustrated booklet by Maya Lopez-Santamaria. Minnesota Musical

Traditions Series of the Minnesota Historical Society Press. St. Paul: 1999. For

The Annals of Iowa, Fall, 326-27

Works Accepted for Publication, under Contract

≥La Danza Matachina as New Mexican Heritage≤ in Expressing Culture: Nuevomexicanos as Performers, Critics, and Remembrants, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanites, and sponsored by the Southwest Research Institute and the University of New Mexico, forthcoming

"Sound Image and Identity: The Matachines Danza across Borders." For Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos in between Worlds, Claire Farago and Donna Pierce, editors. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, in press

≥A Scholar Intervenes: Matachines, Ritual Continuity, and Cultural Well Being.≤ Healing the West. A publication of the University of Colorado Center of the American West. Tempe: University of Arizona Press, forthcoming

Works in Progress

Canciones de mis patrias, Songs of My Homelands; Early New Mexican Folksongs. Compact disc with explanatory notes. Recorded by Emotional Logic Studios and Records, 1998-2000; edited by Kevin Harbison, 2004, Mastered by David Glasser of Airshow Mastering, 2005; winner of the Society for American Musicπs 2004 ≥Sight and Sound≤ subvention award for non-print publication; forthcoming 2006

≥The Matachines Danza as Inter-Cultural Discourse,≤ in Dancing across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos, edited by Norma Cant˙, Olga N·jera-RamÌrez, and Brenda M. Romero. Under review by University of Illinois Press

Matachines Music and Danza across Borders, Cultures, and Time. An ethnomusicological study of the dynamics of musical change indexed by the ceremonial genre called Matachines in the U.S. and Mexico. Projected year of draft completion, fall, 2006

PRESENTATIONS

Papers

2005 ≥Somethingπs Gotta Go, What Is it?≤ Paper delivered at the 50^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia, November 21

2005 ≥Lila Downs: Transculturation and Musical Communication,≤ a paper delivered at the annual National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies (NACCS) Meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Miami, Florida, April 14

2004 ≥Lila Downs: Transculturation and Musical Communication,≤ a paper delivered at the annual American Folklore Society Meeting, held at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 16

2004 ≥Matachines Danza across Borders,≤ a paper delivered at the Colloquium on Expressive Culture in the Hispanic Southwest, hosted and sponsored by the

University of New Mexico and the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, September 10-11

2004 ≥Space and Sound in Traditional New Mexican Penitential Rites,≤ a collaborative

ethnomusicology/architecture presentation with Phillip B. Gallegos of CU Denver

for the National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies XXXI Annual

Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 3

2004 ≥Space and Sound in Traditional New Mexican Penitential Rites,≤ a collaborative

ethnomusicology/architecture presentation with Phillip B. Gallegos of CU Denver

for the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu,

Hawaii, January 11

2003 ≥Matachines: A Cross-Border Perspective≤ 13-07 Panel: Dancing Across

Borders: Danzas, Bailes, y Bailables I, American Folklore Society Annual

Meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 10

2003 ≥The Musicology Program and the Top Ten.≤ Paper presented on the Panel:

≥Top Ten Lists: Mediating Conflicting Methodologies≤ at the Joint ATMI/ CMS/SEM Annual Meeting, Hotel Intercontinental Miami, Florida. October 2

2001 "Experiences in Teaching Traditional Music - Mexico and the United States."

Paper delivered at the College Music Society 44th Annual Meeting, El Dorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 16

2001 "Ethnomusicology in Mexico." Paper delivered at the 46^th Annual Meeting of the

Society for Ethnomusicology, Westin Hotel, Southfield, Michigan, October 27

2000 "The Indita of New Mexico: Gender and Cultural Identification," a paper

delivered for the Society of Ethnomusicology at the annual conference Musical

Intersections 2000 in Toronto, Canada. November 5

2000 Panel Presentation on Cultural Diversity for the College Music Society at the

annual conference Musical Intersections 2000 in Toronto, Canada. November 1

Panels and Forums

2005 Panelist, Objects Artist Conversations, CU Museum; An Exploration of the

Stories Objects Tell, March 30

2005 Research Forum, Colorado Music Educatorsπ Association (CMEA), held at the

Broadmoor Hotel, January 29

2004 Facilitator, Forum on World Music and Ethnomusicology, College Music Society

Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, November 6

2004 Panelist, Opening Roundtable, New Directions in Chicano Music and

Musicology Conference, University of California Los Angeles, April 23

2003 15-09 Forum participant: "Text and Community" (October 10); 20-04 Forum

participant: "Matachines y 'Comanches': Intercultural Celebrations of New

Mexico" (October 11), at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting held at

the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2003 Discussant for Panel "Intersections of Music Theory and Ethnomusicology," at

the Joint ATMI/CMS/SEM Annual Meeting held at the Hotel Intercontinental

Miami, October 5

2003 Forum" "Affirmative Actions: Strategies." The Crossroads Project of the SEM

Committee on Difference, Diversity, and Underrepresenation. Joint

ATMI/CMS/SEM Annual Meeting,Hotel Intercontinental Miami, October 4

2002 "Empathy, the Arts, and the Music Curriculum." Research presentation delivered

at the Colorado Music Educators Annual Clinic Conference held at the

Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, January 26

2000 Panel Presentation "Music as the Best Route to Understanding theWest," for

Center of the American West Conference "Listening to the West: Music, the Soul

of a Region." August 11