Presentations
For more than fifteen years, Marysol Quevedo has actively participated and presented in national and international conferences. Below you will find a selection of her conference participation and public presentations.
October 23, 2025 | Atlanta, GA | “The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscape in Revolutionary Cuba” | Participant, Organized Panel Sponsored by Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board, “Labor and the Job Market” | Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting
Oct. 24, 2024 | Cornell University Music Colloquium Series | “Music of the Hemisphere: the Inter-American Music Festival, Cold War Cultural Diplomacy, and ‘Universal’ Musical Aesthetics”
September 2024 | National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan | “Book Talk: On Research and Writing of Cuban Music Counterpoints”
Sept. 6, 2024 | 7pm | Books & Books of Coral Gables | Discussant for Eva Silot Bravo’s new book presentation | Cuban Fusion: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene
August 7-10, 2024 | UNAM, Ciudad Mexico | “Afro-diasporic Womanhood in Tania J. León’s ‘Oh Yemanja’” | VI Conference of the IMS Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ARLAC)
April 5-6, 2024 | Keynote Speaker | AMS-Southwest/SEM-Southern Plains Chapters Joint Meeting | University of Oklahoma, Norman
Feb. 10, 2024 | 6:30pm | Pre-Concert Chat, New World Symphony Concert, New World Center
Feb. 15, 2024 | “Musical Modernism and Revival at the Lyceum Lawn Tennis Club” | FIU CIR 14th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies
November 9-12, 2023 | Denver, CO | Panelist, Revisiting the 2017 Musicology Now “Open Letter to AMS Members on the State of the Academic Job Market”: Strategies for Implementation, & Chair, Hearing “American” Music: Subjectivity and Diplomacy during the Cold War, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting
“Classical Music Exchanges between the US and Mexico,” Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023
Roundtable Participant, “Diversifying Music Pedagogy: A Discussion of Values, Positionalities, and Strategies,” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, CA, October 22, 2023.
Cuban Music Counterpoints Book Presentation | Books & Books at Coral Gables | Sat. Nov. 4, 2023, 6pm
Friday, November 3, 2023, 5:30pm | Newman Recital Hall, Frost School of Music, University of Miami | Frost Research Showcase |
Sept. 29, 2023 | Case Western Reserve University Music Colloquium | “Sisters of the Clear Waters”: Afro-Diasporic Womanhood in Tania León’s “Oh Yemanja”
April 22-23, 2023 | “First Encuentro of Latina Music Scholars” UT Austin.
March 25, 2023 | Columbia University | Operatic Feminisms
March 2nd, 2023 | ETHNOISE! The Music, Language, and Culture Workshop | “Afro-diasporic Womanhood in Tania León’s ‘Oh Yemanja’”
December 2-3, 2022 | Congreso Internacional “Musicología y festivales,” UNIA, Baeza | “El Festival de Música Inter-Americana y Diplomacia Cultural Hemisférica durante la Guerra Fría”
July 7-10th, 2022 | Feminist Theory and Music Conference University of Guelph | “Afro-diasporic Womanhood in Tania León’s ‘Oh Yemanja’”
Saturday, April 9, 7pm, Truist Pavilion at the New World Center. Pre-Concert Chat for New World Symphony’s Latin Love and Lore Concert. With NWS fellows, discussion of the evening’s Latin American themed repertory.
February 3-4, 2022 | 13th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University | “The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscape in Revolutionary Cuba”
December 1, 2021 | UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Lecturer, Musicology and Music Theory Forum | “The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscapes in Revolutionary Cuba”
November, 2021 | American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. Online | “Postmodern Water Music: Leo Brouwer’s Canción de Gesta”
October 9, 2021 | Frost School of Music, University of Miami | Lecture presentation during Ensemble Ibis Music of the Americas Concert | Archived Concert livestream video. Review of concert by South Florida Classical Review
October 7, 2021 | Frost School of Music, University of Miami | “Tania León’s Stride: Round Table Discussion with Composer Tania León and Musicologist Alejandro L. Madrid”
September 20, 2021 | Brown University | Music Now Talk with Marysol Quevedo: “Postmodern Water Music: Liquid Sonority in Cuban Composition in the Early 1980s”
September 17, 2021 | University of Miami Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium | “Postmodern Water Music: Leo Brouwer’s Canción de Gesta”
March 2-6, 2020 | Coloquio de Musicología Casa de las Américas | Havana, Cuba | “El Festival de Música Inter-Americana y Diplomacia Cultural Hemisférica durante la Guerra Fría”
February 21, 2020 | Gusman Concert Hall, Frost School of Music, University of Miami | Pre-Concert Talk for Música de Cámara Latinoamericana: Frost Chamber Players Faculty Concert
February 28, 2020 | Suntrust Pavilion at the New World Center | Pre-Concert Talk for Alma Latina Concert by the New World Symphony
Nov. 1, 2019 | American Musicological Society’s Annual Meeting in Boston | Chair, Cold War and Music Study Group’s panel, “Gender, Music, and the Cold War”
Nov. 7, 2019 | Society for Ethnomusicology’s Annual Meeting in Bloomington, Indiana | Discussant in panel, “Networks of musical circulation in the long twentieth century”
“The Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo as Predecessor of the Revolutionary Cultural Projects of Post-1959 Cuba.” Encuentro Cubano, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. April 26, 2019
“‘Neoclacisismo y danzón’: Argeliers León’s Cuban Approach to Modernist Classical Composition.” Society for American Music. New Orleans, Louisiana. March 20-24, 2019
Chair and Panel Organizer, “Músicas en Múltiples Orillas: Music Interactions and Exchanges between Cuba and Puerto Rico.” 12th Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, Florida International University, Miami, February 14-15, 2019
“Music and the Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo in 1950s Cuba: Modernist Aesthetics Meet Leftist Politics.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas. November 1, 2018
“Tapping into Existing Resources to Support Under-represented Graduate Students.” American Musicological Society Pre-Conference Symposium Diversifying Music Academia: Strengthening the Pipeline. San Antonio, Texas. October 31-Novmeber 1, 2018
“La serie Contemporáneos de la EGREM y la promoción de la música experimental en Cuba socialista.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Latin American Branch. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 11-16, 2018
“The Inter-American Music Festival and Hemispheric Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress. Barcelona, Spain. May 23-26, 2018; and Listening Closely: Green Library Music Lecture Series. Florida International University. April 30, 2018
“Lucía en tres movimientos: Un análisis interpretativo de la banda sonora de Leo Brouwer para el film Lucía.” Coloquio de Musicología Casa de las Américas. Havana, Cuba. March 10-18, 2018
“Whither “the Cold War” in Music Studies Today?” Presenter. American Musicological Society 2017 Annual Meeting. Rochester, NY, November 9-12, 2017
“Ethnomusicologists in the Archive: Perils and Potentials.” Roundtable Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology 2017 Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. October 26-29, 2017
“The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba: Musical Aesthetics and Revolutionary Ideology in Symphonic Concert Programming.” IX Congreso Chileno de Musicología: “Música en tiempos de crisis.” Universidad de Santiago de Chile. July 12-15, 2017
“Cuban-US Relations, Music, and an Island ‘Frozen in Time.’” Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Congress. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. June 3-4, 2017
“Collecting, Archiving, Curating, and Researching the Music of the Hispanic Caribbean: Cristóbal Díaz Ayala’s Musicological Legacy.” Eleventh Conference on Cuban and Cuba-American Studies. Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University. February 2017
Chair, Panel “Sounding Cuban Change.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. November 2016
“Juxtaposed (A)chords/Accords: Musical Aesthetics and Revolutionary Ideology in the Concert Programming of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba.” New Directions in Cuban Studies Conference. Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami. October 20-21, 2016
“Music in Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: Musical Experimentation in the Service of Revolutionary Ideology.” Music and Visual Cultures International Conference. Maynooth University, Ireland. July 2016
“Argeliers León and Afro-Cuban Music Research in Revolutionary Cuba: Ethnography as Musical Patrimony.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Austin, Texas. December 2015
“Experimental Music and the Avant Garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolution.” Experimental Music in Practice: Perspectives from Latin America Symposium. Rutgers University. September 2015
“Beyond Afrocubanismo: Cuban Classical Music Composition, 1940-1959.” More Than White, More Than Mulatto, More Than Black: Racial Politics in Cuba and the Americas. Tenth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University. February 2015
“Experimental Music and the Avant Garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolution.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Milwaukee, WI. November 2014
“Cuban Involvement in the Guinea-Bissau Liberation Struggle and its Cultural Ramifications: the Case of Madina Boe.” New Directions in Cuban Studies: Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellows Conference. University of Miami. March 20-21, 2014
Panelist in “Cross-Border Encounters in the Global South: A New Look at Cold War Cultural Diplomacy.” Panel sponsored by the Cold War and Music Study Group. American Musicological Society Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA. November 10, 2013
“Modernist and Socialist: The Dual Roles of the Revolutionary Cuban Composer” Paul Lucas History Conference: Ruptures and Revolutions. Indiana University. March 24, 2012
“Cuban Pan-Americanism: Cuban Music Exchanges with the US and Latin America before and after the 1959 Revolution.” Cultural Counterpoints: Examining the Musical Interactions between the U.S. and Latin America. A Conference in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Indiana University Latin American Music Center. October, 20, 2011
“En diálogo: Cuban Cultural Exchanges: Negotiating the Local within the International.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. Mexico City, Mexico. November 20, 2009
“Performing Ethnicity in Contemporary Works for the Stage.” Borderland Imaginations Colloquium at IU Jacobs School of Music. Aug. 8, 2008
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