Biographical Note
Daniel Jordan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Daniel’s current research focuses on music, aesthetics, and cultural policy during the Cold War. He is focusing on the governments and geographical regions of Canada, Latvia, and Ukraine.
Daniel is the author of Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco regime, 1939-1953, a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press. He has also written a peer-reviewed article for Music & Letters and book reviews for Revue de musicologie.
Daniel has regularly presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the British Forum of Ethnomusicology, and the Royal Musical Association.
Daniel is teaching the graduate course MUS4200: "Critical Approaches to Music History" for the 2022-23 academic year.
Daniel wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge on the music, gender, and politics of Francoist Spain. He also holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music, London, and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Victoria.
Daniel continues to perform as a pianist alongside his academic career.
Degrees
PhD in Music, University of Cambridge
MMus with Distinction, Royal College of Music (London)
BMus with Distinction, University of Victoria (Canada)
Publications
Book:
Daniel Jordan, Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco Regime, 1939-1953 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023 [forthcoming]).
Article:
Daniel Jordan, “Sección Femenina: Documenting and Performing Spanish Musical Folklore During the Early Franco Regime (1939–1953),” Music and Letters 101, no. 3 (2019): 544–66, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcz099.