Erin Bauer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  Dr. Bauer also runs a private piano studio in the Madison area.

Dr. Bauer's research explores the cross-cultural influence and mainstream assimilation of Latin American folk music within the global society.  Her current book project examines the recent worldwide spread of Texas-Mexican accordion music, called conjunto, a regional tradition historically forming a powerful symbol of cultural identity.  Related topics of interest include Ry Cooder, Los Lobos, and the Limburg-based rock band Rowwen Hèze.  Dr. Bauer has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences.  Her writing appears in Rock Music Studies, a number of essay collections, the Latin American Music Review, and is forthcoming from ​Latino Studies.  

Prior to her time at UW-W, Dr. Bauer spent three years as Director of Instrumental Music at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  Before that, she spent ten years teaching math, physics, and music at the secondary level in Texas and California.  Before moving to Wyoming in fall of 2015, she taught courses in music at Western Nebraska Community College and Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California.

EDUCATION 

2014      Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, Musicology 

              Dissertation: “The Spanish Diferencia: Stylistic Analysis and Compositional Influence of the Keyboard   
              Variation from Antonio de Cabezón to Juan Bautista José Cabanilles”

2010      M.A., Claremont Graduate University, Musicology 
2005      B.A., Colorado College, Majors: Music and Physics, Minors: Mathematics and Renaissance Studies