UC Riverside Department of Music presents:

Ketty Wong, “Luis Humberto Salgado: A Nationalist-Modernista Composer in 20^th-Century Ecuador”

While musical encyclopedias identify Luis Humberto Salgado as a nationalist composer, he described his musical style as ranging “from neodiatonicism to postserialism, beyond Schoenberg.” This presentation will examine Salgado’s eclectic compositional style, which decenters Eurocentric notions of musical modernism while also expressing a strong sense of locality that diverges from tradition.

Bio:

Ketty Wong is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kansas, a member of Ecuador’s National Academy of History, and a former Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar in China. Her research explores the intersection of music with identity, migration, nationalism, globalization, global modernisms, Latin American art, folk and popular music, Ecuador, and the reception of Western social dances in China. Her book, La Música Nacional: Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador (Temple University Press), won the 2010 Casa de las Américas Musicology Award in Cuba and the 2013 Book Award from the Ecuadorian Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. She is also the author of Luis Humberto Salgado: A Quixote of Music and has published music scores along with two CDs featuring this Ecuadorian composer’s chamber music, sponsored by the University of Kansas School of Music.

Part of the 2024-2025 Florence Bayz Music Series

The Florence Bayz Music Series offers online concerts, lectures, and presentations of academic research by Department of Music faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and international guest artists and scholars.

Dr. Amy Skjerseth (she/her), Assistant Professor of Popular Music, Coordinator

Events are free and open to the public.
 

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