Javier Marín-López
Universidad of Jaén

Javier Marín-López is Professor of Musicology at the Universidad of Jaén, Spain, and holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the Universidad de Granada. His scholarship focuses on Latin American, U.S. Southwest, and Spanish musical culture from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on processes of transatlantic exchange in broader European and global contexts. On these topics, he has published and edited multiple volumes, books, and articles. Among diverse distinctions, he has received the Samuel Claro Valdés Musicology Award from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the Otto Mayer-Serra Honorable Mention Award from the University of California, Riverside. He has served as Vice President of the National Musicological Society in his native country. Since 2007, he has been the Artistic Director of the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza, where he has promoted innovative programming and the revival of unpublished Iberian and Latin American colonial repertoire. As an LAII Research Associate, Marín-López’s current research focuses on the history of sound and musical mobility in New Mexico, at the crossroads of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and the Santa Fe Trail. Website: https://linktr.ee/javiermarinlopez