Andrew Synder, Phd
(AMMR grantee)
 

 

Andrew Snyder received his PhD in ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley and is currently a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnomusicology at NOVA University Lisbon in Portugal. He is broadly interested in music in the Lusophone world, festivity, activism, migration, and postcoloniality.

He is the author of Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press 2022) and Postcolonial Intimacy: Brazilian Music and Carnival in Portugal (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). He is coeditor of the Journal of Festive Studies; HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge 2020); Festival Activism (Indiana University Press 2025); and At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice (Indiana University Press 2022), the last of which won the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize and an Honorable Mention for the Bruno Nettl Prize, both from the Society for Ethnomusicology. His work has appeared in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Latin American Music Review, among other venues. He is also a trumpeter and guitarist who plays a wide variety of popular music styles. 

Andrew received an AMMR seed money grant from MMRC to develop the research project provisionally titled “Curating Lusofonia: Staging the Postcolonial World in Festivals of Portuguese-Speaking Countries.”