Dr Vera Wolkowicz
- Lecturer in Musicology (Music)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568Research interests
My research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century classical music in and from Latin America. I examine how various agents—composers, critics, audiences, and institutions—have engaged with ideas of nationalism, modernity, and cultural identity through music. I am particularly interested in tracing the history of transatlantic connections between Latin American and European musics and musicians, and how these exchanges have shaped musical developments in Latin America. As a historical musicologist working on Latin America, I am also committed to interrogating the boundaries between ‘Western’ and ‘Non-Western’ musics, contributing to current debates in global musicology.
Publications
2025
Pedrotti, Clarisa and Wolkowicz, Vera 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2025)
Digital sources for nineteenth century music in Argentina, a case of ‘magical realism’.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review,
(doi: 10.1017/S1479409824000363)
(Early Online Publication)
2024
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Construyendo identidades: la formación de músicos latinoamericanos en París entre 1880 y 1930.
Revista Instituto de Investigación Musicológica Carlos Vega, 38(2),
pp. 95-120.
(doi: 10.46553/riimcv.382.2024.95)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Música académica a través de la prensa (1900-1950).
Revista Instituto de Investigación Musicológica Carlos Vega, 38(2),
pp. 13-16.
(doi: 10.46553/riimcv.382.2024.13)
Restiffo, Marisa and Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568 (Eds.)
(2024)
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical.
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical.
28(54) [Edited Journal]
Restiffo, Marisa and Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Introducción al dossier. Historias conectadas: el italianismo musical en Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX = Introduction to the special issue. Connected stories: musical Italianism in Latin America in the 19th century.
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical, 28(54),
pp. 11-25.
(doi: 10.7764/res.2024.54.2)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Race(ism) and art music in Argentina: Analyzing Alberto Williams’ ‘La patria y la música’ (1921).
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle,
(doi: 10.1017/rrc.2023.3)
(Early Online Publication)
2022
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Opera as a moral vehicle: situating Bellini's Norma in the political complexities of mid-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 19(3),
pp. 403-425.
(doi: 10.1017/S1479409820000506)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780197548943
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197548943.001.0001)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
“Construyendo identidades nacionales: consideraciones acerca de lo folklórico, lo popular y lo erudito en la música latinoamericana (1900-1940)”.
In:
Aires de la tierra: Imaginarios sonoros de la nación en América Latina.
Sílex Ultramar, pp. 161-184.
ISBN 9788419077745
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Daniel Alomía Robles como restaurador de la música incaica.
In:
Identidades, liderazgos y transgresiones en la música peruana.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, pp. 187-217.
2021
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2021)
Belén Vega Pichaco, Ni la lira ni el bongó… La construcción de la Música Nueva en Cuba desde la órbita de Musicalia (1927-1946). Granada: Comares Música, 2021, 384 pp.
Revista Musical Chilena, 75(236),
pp. 186-188.
[Book Review]
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2021)
Marina Cañardo, Fábricas de Música. Comienzos de la industria discográfica en la Argentina (1919-1930), Buenos Aires, Gourmet Musical, 2017, 309 p.
Transposition, 9,
(doi: 10.4000/transposition.5837)[Book Review]
Articles
Pedrotti, Clarisa and Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2025)
Digital sources for nineteenth century music in Argentina, a case of ‘magical realism’.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review,
(doi: 10.1017/S1479409824000363)
(Early Online Publication)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Construyendo identidades: la formación de músicos latinoamericanos en París entre 1880 y 1930.
Revista Instituto de Investigación Musicológica Carlos Vega, 38(2),
pp. 95-120.
(doi: 10.46553/riimcv.382.2024.95)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Música académica a través de la prensa (1900-1950).
Revista Instituto de Investigación Musicológica Carlos Vega, 38(2),
pp. 13-16.
(doi: 10.46553/riimcv.382.2024.13)
Restiffo, Marisa and Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Introducción al dossier. Historias conectadas: el italianismo musical en Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX = Introduction to the special issue. Connected stories: musical Italianism in Latin America in the 19th century.
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical, 28(54),
pp. 11-25.
(doi: 10.7764/res.2024.54.2)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2024)
Race(ism) and art music in Argentina: Analyzing Alberto Williams’ ‘La patria y la música’ (1921).
Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle,
(doi: 10.1017/rrc.2023.3)
(Early Online Publication)
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Opera as a moral vehicle: situating Bellini's Norma in the political complexities of mid-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 19(3),
pp. 403-425.
(doi: 10.1017/S1479409820000506)
Books
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Inca Music Reimagined: Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780197548943
(doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197548943.001.0001)
Book Sections
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
“Construyendo identidades nacionales: consideraciones acerca de lo folklórico, lo popular y lo erudito en la música latinoamericana (1900-1940)”.
In:
Aires de la tierra: Imaginarios sonoros de la nación en América Latina.
Sílex Ultramar, pp. 161-184.
ISBN 9788419077745
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2022)
Daniel Alomía Robles como restaurador de la música incaica.
In:
Identidades, liderazgos y transgresiones en la música peruana.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, pp. 187-217.
Book Reviews
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2021)
Belén Vega Pichaco, Ni la lira ni el bongó… La construcción de la Música Nueva en Cuba desde la órbita de Musicalia (1927-1946). Granada: Comares Música, 2021, 384 pp.
Revista Musical Chilena, 75(236),
pp. 186-188.
[Book Review]
Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568
(2021)
Marina Cañardo, Fábricas de Música. Comienzos de la industria discográfica en la Argentina (1919-1930), Buenos Aires, Gourmet Musical, 2017, 309 p.
Transposition, 9,
(doi: 10.4000/transposition.5837)[Book Review]
Edited Journals
Restiffo, Marisa and Wolkowicz, Vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-4568 (Eds.)
(2024)
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical.
Resonancias: Revista de investigación musical.
28(54) [Edited Journal]
Grants
- European Union’s Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship – Gran Agreement No. 101028215. For the project: Latin American Art Music as European Invention: The Making of Latin American Composers in Paris, 1880-1930
- Institute of Musical Research (Royal Holloway, University of London) – IMR Early Career Research Grant and Fellowship
Supervision
- Li, Wenjing
The Multiple Voices of Contemporary Chinese Mezzo-soprano: From a Handel's Opera Perspective
Additional information
Awards
- Robert M. Stevenson Award – American Musicological Society, for outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music.
- AMS 75 Publication Awards for Younger Scholars Fund – American Musicological Society, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
