María
Palacios Nieto

María Palacios studied Violoncello, Clarinet and Chamber Music at the conservatories of Albacete and Madrid. She holds a degree of Clarinet from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid (1997) and a degree of Violoncello from the Conservatorio “Angel Arias Maceín” de Madrid (1999), as well as a degree in Musicology (2000) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She obtained her PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2007), under the supervisión of Prof. Javier Suárez-Pajares, with a dissertation on Musical renovation in Madrid during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1923-1931). This research was awarded the National Prize of the Spanish Society of Musicology "Prize for Musical Research and Musicological Studies, call for Musicological Studies" (2006). She has been Predoctoral Research Fellow at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2001-2005) Palacios has been Visiting Scholar at University of Michigan (2001), New York University (2001) and City University of New York (2004). Specializing in the music of the so-called Generation of '27 and the musical avant-garde of the early 20th century. Her field of research focuses mainly on the relationships between ideology, gender, music and power. Her interest in language and music studies has led her to participate in numerous meetings and conferences on the relationship between music and literature. In addition, Palacios mainly works with press archives musical sources, being the secretary of the Grupo “Music and Print Media” of the Spanish Society of Musicology, since its foundation in 2013. Within this aspect, her latest research is especially connected with the world of the print media, understood as a particularly relevant place in the social mediation and the shaping of meanings.