Daniel Jordan

Daniel Jordan is an Associate Editor at the RILM International Center. 

As a music historian, Daniel examines music, aesthetics, cultural policy, patronage, and cultural diplomacy from the early Cold War to the present, with particular attention to Spain, Latvia, and Canada.

Daniel is the author of Coros y Danzas: Folk Music and Spanish Nationalism in the Early Franco Regime, 1939–1953, published by Oxford University Press in 2023. His articles and book reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Musical Quarterly, Music & Letters, Intersections, and the Revue de musicologie. He has presented his research at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the Royal Musical Association.

Before joining RILM, Jordan taught musicology at the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music. From 2022 to 2024, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His postdoctoral project examined knowledge infrastructures and cultural exchange in Cold War Eastern Europe and Canada.

Jordan received his PhD in Music History from the University of Cambridge in 2020. His doctoral research examined music, gender, and politics in Francoist Spain. He also holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the Royal College of Music and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with Distinction from the University of Victoria.

He remains active as a pianist.