Post-Doc, Anthropology
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Thesis Title: The Musical Making of Race and Place in Colombia's Black Pacific
Ana María Ochoa (Music - Columbia)
Jairo Moreno (NYU - Music)
Aisha Khan (NYU - Anthropology)
About
Michael Birenbaum Quintero is an ethnomusicologist. He defended his doctoral dissertation on multiculturalism, the Afro-Colombian political movement, and currulao music, titled “The Musical Making of Race and Place in Colombia’s Black Pacific", at New York University in 2009. He has published in English and Spanish on black Colombian musics and has collaborated with the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History, the Colombian Ministry of Culture, the Smithsonian Folkways music label, the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó, and Proceso de Comunidades Negras, an Afro-Colombian activist organization, and the community music archive of the Asociacion de Investigaciones Culturales del Choco in Colombia. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships including the Fulbright IIE Grant, the NYU Humanities Institute Predoctoral Research Fellowship, an Honorable Mention for the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Lise Waxer Prize, the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Charles Seeger Prize for most distinguished student paper, and a Mellon Postdoctoral “Concepts of Diaspora” Fellowship at the Dept. of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Musicology Department at Peabody Conservatory. He has worked closely with Afro-Colombian musicians, and is the founder and director of Afro-Colombian Marimba Ensembles at NYU and Bowdoin College. In Fall 2010 he will begin as Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College in Maine.
Contact Information
http://laguayabita.blogspot.com/
Johns Hopkins University
109 Macaulay Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
347.994.9691
