Music, Civil Society, and the Search for Peace in Colombia

Join us for a lecture by, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music; Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department.

Michael Birenbaum Quintero studies Black cultural politics in Latin America. His work in Colombia examines the place of music in both the Afro-Colombian social movement and the cultural policy of the state under neoliberal multiculturalism; historical constructions of Blackness through music; sounded cosmology; vernacular Black music circulation and technology; violence and trauma; the affective politics of loudness and the genealogy of the Afro-Colombian intellectual tradition.