Faculty Profiles

Pedroza, L. R. (2024). Review of J.Q. Davies’s “Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913”3.”. Journal of the American Musicological Society. University of California Press. Retrieved from https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/issue/77/2

Pedroza, L. R. (2017). Latin Music Studies at Texas State University: The Undergraduate Minor in Mariachi and Its Implications for Expansive Curricula in Mainstream Institutions of the United States. In R. Moore (Ed.), College Music Curricula for a New Century (pp. 135–154). New York: Oxford University Press.

Pedroza, L. R. (2016). “The Joropo in Venezuela’s Musical Modernity: Cultural Capital in José Clemente Laya’s Sonata Venezolana.” Musicological Annual, 52, 51–72.

Pedroza, L. R. (2016, December). Review of El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth by Geoffrey Baker. Latin American Music Review. University of Texas Press.

Pedroza, L. R. (2016). “Latin Music Studies at Texas State University: The Undergraduate Minor in Mariachi and Implications for Expansive Curricula.” In College Music Curricula for a New Century. New York, United States: Oxford University Press.

Pedroza, L. R. (2015). “Of Orchestras, Mythos, and the Idealization of Symphonic Practice: The Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela in the (Collateral) History of El Sistema.” Latin American Music Review, 36, 68–93.

Pedroza, L. R. (2014). “Merengue Meets the Symphony Orchestra: Interrogating Music as One and the Terrific Musical Experience at the Hollywood Bowl.” American Music, 32, 317–352.

Pedroza, L. R. (2014). “Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema” in American Neo-idealistic Imagination.”. Symposium: Journal of the College Music Society, 54. Retrieved from http://symposium.music.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=266:volume-54&Itemid=124

Pedroza, L. R. (2011). “Save the Children or Save the Music: Venezuela’s El Sistema as Syncretic Aesthetic and Pedagogical Export.” Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/15544

Pedroza, L. R. (2010). “Music as Communitas: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, and the Musical Work,.” Journal of Musicological Research, 29, 295-321.