Bernard Gordillo, chancellor’s postdoctoral scholar in history, musicology, and the Chicano Studies Research Center, has been named the Central America Area Editor for the Grove Music Online: Latin American and Iberian Music. The Grove Music Dictionaries have been the gold standard for scholarly reference in music for three centuries. First published in 1879 (and still printed today), Grove launched its online edition in 2001. The area editors are recognized leaders in their respective fields.
Bernard Gordillo Brockmann, a native of Nicaragua, is a historian of music in Latin America, focused on music, sound, and political histories of Central America in the twentieth century. His book project Canto de Marte: Art Music, Popular Culture, and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, 1909–1933 (under contract with Oxford University Press) is a social and cultural history of Nicaragua examined through the art and popular music, writings, and social networks of local composer Luis Abraham Delgadillo. He has published articles in the Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review, and Ensayos: Historia y Teoría del Arte.