Robert L. Kendrick

Kendrick works on issues of music and ideology in the early modern repertories of the Italian, Hispanic, and Habsburg worlds. He has published on topics including nuns' music in the Italian Renaissance, operas/oratorios, mourning and consolation, and historical anthropology, with side interests in oral traditions in the modern Mediterranean, visuality, and musical ethnography in 20^th-century Mexico and Cuba. His books include Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Their Music in Early Modern Milan (1996), The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 (2002), and Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week (2014). He has also been active in struggles for democratic universities and for adjunct faculty rights.