Samuel Llano

Biography

I am a cultural historian and musicologist specialising in the music of nineteenth and twentieth century Spain, sound studies and transnationalism

I earned my PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2007. Before joining Manchester in 2015, I have been a Research Fellow in the University of Birmingham (2008-2011) and the University of Cambridge (2011-2014); and a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies in Durham University (2014-2015).

My most recent book is currently in press and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017 under the title Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930.  This research was supported by a fellowship on the collaborative AHRC-funded project at Cambridge, ‘Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936: Realities, Representations, Reactions.’  My earlier book entitled Whose Spain? Negotiating ‘Spanish Music’ in Paris, 1908-1929 (Oxford University Press, 2012) received the Robert M. Stevenson Award of the American Musicological Society for outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music.

I am a member of the editorial boards of Diagonal (journal of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Music at UC Riverside) and the ‘Hispanic Music’ book series of the Complutense Institute for Musical Research (ICCMU), Madrid.

Areas of expertise

• M Music
• PQ Romance literatures