Juan Fernando Velasquez

Juan Fernando Velásquez is Chair of Graduate Programs in the School of Arts at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology with certificates in Latin American and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and was postdoctoral scholar at the Michigan Society of Fellows. His research intersects cultural history, urban history, decoloniality, and sound studies to explore the multiple relations between urban modernization, social formation processes, economic transformation, musical practice and sound in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Latin America. His articles and essays have appeared in journals like Latin American Music Review, Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal, Latin American Music Review, and the Boletín de Música de Casa de las Américas. His first book “Los Ecos de la Villa” received the Award for Reseach in immaterial heritage by the Municipality of Medellín. His new book, “Inscribing Sounds: Music Technologies And Aural Culture In Late-Nineteenth And Early-Twentieth-Century Colombia,” is on contract with Oxford University Press. Velásquez also chaired the Ibero-American Music Study Group at the American Musicological Society (IAMSG-AMS).