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Andrew Snyder is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnomusicology at NOVA University Lisbon in Portugal, having completed his PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested in the cultural politics of festive practices, with particular focus on carnival traditions in Brazil and Portugal. His first monograph, "Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro" (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), tells the story of neofanfarrismo, a massive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement during a period of political crisis in Brazil. His next book, "Postcolonial Intimacy: Brazilian Music and Migration in Portugal" (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) examines the emerging carnival of Brazilian immigrants in their historical metropole, showing how the festivity affectively negotiates and transforms this postcolonial relationship. Andrew has published in leading music journals, including Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Yearbook for Traditional Music, and Latin American Music Review. His articles and chapters cover a wide range of theoretical topics, including race, gender, activism, disability, capitalism, cultural diplomacy, migration, affect, and postcolonialism. Andrew has worked on several collaborative projects, having coedited "HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism" (Routledge, 2020), which examines a consolidating global network of activist brass bands; "At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice" (Indiana University Press, 2022), which in 2023 won SEM’s Ellen Koskoff Prize and an Honorable Mention for the Bruno Nettl Prize; and "Festival Activism" (Indiana University Press, forthcoming), which explores the potentialities of festive spaces as platforms for political action. He is Coeditor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary "Journal of Festive Studies" (2023-), and he is a member of the editorial team of TRANS-Revista Transcultural de Música (2024-), the ethnomusicological journal of the Iberian Peninsula’s Sociedad de Etnomusicología. Andrew is an active participant in academic networks across Europe, Latin America, and North America. As President of the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2020-22), he amplified spaces for student participation and expression of concern. He has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the Conservatory of the University of the Pacific, and NOVA. As a Berkeley Connect Visiting Scholar (2019), he mentored a diverse group of undergraduate musicians to help them forge self-directed paths through the university. Andrew is also a trumpet player who regularly performs jazz, Brazilian music, and Balkan music among other genres. In 2013, he cofounded San Francisco’s Mission Delirium brass band, which has toured in Brazil, Europe, and North America.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andrew Snyder

Citation names

  • Snyder, Andrew

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3E16-021A-902E
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6914-4086

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/08/19 - 2018/05/15
Concluded
Ethnomusicology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
"Critical Brass: The Alternative Brass Movement and Street Carnival Revival of Olympic Rio de Janeiro" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/08/20 - 2012/05/15
Concluded
Ethnomusicology (Master)
University of California, Berkeley, United States
2004/08/20 - 2007/05/15
Concluded
French Literature-History (Bachelor)
Reed College, United States
"Musiciens du silence: Intersections between Poetry and Music in Mallarmé, Verlaine and Debussy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/12/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/08/30 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
2019/01/15 - 2020/05/15 Visiting Researcher (Research) University of California, Berkeley, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/09/01 - 2024/01/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
(...)
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of California, Davis, United States
2018/08/15 - 2019/05/11 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, United States
2019/01/10 - 2019/05/08 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) University of California Berkeley, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/06/06 - Current (COST Action Proposal) Greening the social: festivals and leisure events as places for sustainable futures
OC-2024-1-27203
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidad Abierta de Cataluña, Spain
Under evaluation
2021/09/01 - 2022/07/01 Brass TACKs: Transformative Cultural Diplomacy, Activism, and Community Music Making in Alternative Brass "Fanfarra" Bands in Portugal
2022.07646.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Not funded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/12/01 - 2026/12/01 Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual, Postcolonial Feedback: Brazilian Musics in Portugal
CEECIND/00933/2018
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, United States
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Snyder, Andrew. Postcolonial Intimacy: Brazilian Music and Carnival in Portugal. Chicago, IL, United States: University of Chicago Press, Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology (Formally invited). 2025.
    Submitted
  2. Snyder, Andrew. Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro. Middletown, CT, United States: Wesleyan University Press. 2022.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Snyder, Andrew; McDonald, David; Reed, Jeremy. "Introduction: Festival Activism". In Festival Activism, edited by Snyder, Andrew; David McDonald; Jeremy Reed. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2025.
    In press
  2. Snyder, Andrew. "An Accessible Carnival: Festivity, Inclusion and Disability in Rio de Janeiro". In Festival Activism, edited by Snyder, Andrew; David McDonald; Jeremy Reed. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2025.
    In press
  3. Snyder, Andrew. "Memorializing and Contesting the Colonial Discoveries in Portugal’s Brazilian Carnivals". In Re-thinking Carnival from the Pre-modern to the Present: Subtitle Beyond Historical, Geographic, and Disciplinary Divides, edited by Jeremy DeWaal; Roberta Colbertado. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2025.
    Accepted
  4. Snyder, Andrew. "’Save a Carnation for Me:’ Postcolonial Solidarity and Brazilian Musical Participation in the Protests of Lisbon, Portugal". In Routledge Handbook: Music, Culture and Politics in Latin America, edited by Christian Spencer; Laura Jordán. 2025.
    Accepted
  5. Snyder, Andrew. "L’Inclusion et le handicap dans le Carnaval de Rio de Janeiro". In Faire carnaval, faire politique ?, 117-132. Charleroi, Belgium: L’Université Ouverte, 2022.
    Published
  6. Snyder, Andrew. "Music is Liberation: The Brass Liberation Orchestra and Music as a Tactic of Direct Action". In At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice,, edited by Snyder, Andrew; Brenda Romero; Susan Asai; David McDonald; Jeremy Reed. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2022.
    Published
  7. Snyder, Andrew; Katelyn Best. "Preface of At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice". In At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice.. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2022.
    Published
  8. Snyder, Andrew. "Musical Eclecticism, Cultural Appropriation, and Whiteness in Mission Delirium and HONK!". In HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism, 77-88. New York, NY, United States: Routledge, 2020.
    Published
  9. Snyder, Andrew; Reebee Garofalo; Erin T. Allen. "Introduction of HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism". In HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism. New York, NY, United States: Routledge, 2020.
    Published
  10. Laurine Sézérat. "Autonomous Street Carnival Blocos and Reinventing Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro". edited by Snyder, Andrew; Reebee Garofalo; Erin T. Allen. New York, United States: Routledge, 2020.
    Translator
  11. Snyder, Andrew. "Cuivres critiques : la musique comme tactique d'action directe dans la baie de San Francisco". In Politiques des musiques populaires au XXIe siècle, edited by Jedediah Sklower, 211-232. Paris, France: Éd. Mélanie Seteun, 2015.
    Published
Book review
  1. Snyder, Andrew. "Review of Benjamin Barson. Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press.". Review of Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons 7, (2025):
    Submitted
  2. Snyder, Andrew. "Review of Rodrigo Lopes de Barros. Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.". Review of Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996–2011) 45, 1 (2024): 120-121. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/933399/pdf.
    Published
  3. Snyder, Andrew. "Review of Barbara Browning's Caetano Veloso's A Foreign Sound". 6, 1 (2019): 108-110. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.37596.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Snyder, Andrew; McDonald, David; Reed, Jeremy. Festival Activism. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press. 2025.
    In press • Editor
  2. Snyder, Andrew. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice. Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press. 2022.
    Published • Editor
  3. Snyder, Andrew. HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism. New York, United States: Routledge. 2020.
    Published • 10.4324/9780429020209 • Editor
Journal article
  1. Snyder, Andrew; Miguel Moniz. "Associativism as the Condition of Musical Possibility for an Alternative Brass Band in Portugal: Viability, Mobility, and Protagonism". Ethnomusicology (2025):
    Under revision
  2. Snyder, Andrew. "Colombina Clandestina: The Intersectional Carnival Activism of a Brazilian Bloco in Lisbon". Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (Special Issue: Popular Music in the Lusophone World: Politics, History, and Social Change) (2025):
    Accepted
  3. Snyder, Andrew. "Structural Xenophobia: The Fight for the Viability of Lisbon’s Brazilian Carnival". Music and Minorities: "Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe" special issue (2025):
    Submitted
  4. Snyder, Andrew. "An Interview with Jason Gardner and Giovanni Kezich about We the Spirits". Journal of Festive Studies 6 (2024): 340-389. https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/view/vol6_we_the_spirits.
    Published
  5. Snyder, Andrew. "Editorial". Journal of Festive Studies 6 (2024): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2024.6.1.279.
    Published • 10.33823/jfs.2024.6.1.279
  6. Snyder, Andrew. "Editorial". Journal of Festive Studies 6 (2024):
    Open access
  7. Snyder, Andrew. "An Interview with Jason Gardner and Giovanni Kezich about We the Spirits.". Journal of Festive Studies 6 (2024):
    Open access • In press
  8. Snyder, Andrew; Katelyn Best. "Pathways for a Justice-Oriented Ethnomusicology". Rising Voices 20 1 (2024): https://risingvoicesjournal.com/201-dear-sem.
    Open access
  9. Snyder, Andrew. "The Musical Expat: Privileged Migration and Baby Music Class in Lisbon". MUSICultures 50 (2023): 217-47. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/33748/1882529582.
    Published
  10. SNYDER, ANDREW. "Affective Aspirations of Activist Musical Diplomacy at the Bicentennial Celebration of Brazilian Independence in Lisbon". Yearbook for Traditional Music 55 1 (2023): 1-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2023.7.
    Published • 10.1017/ytm.2023.7
  11. Andrew Snyder. "Consensus process in the decision-making of a North American alternative brass band". Ethnomusicology Forum 32 1 (2023): 28-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2022.2161591.
    10.1080/17411912.2022.2161591
  12. Snyder, Andrew. "Revelry, Inclusion, and Disability in the Street Carnival of Rio de Janeiro". Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis 1 (2022): 94-109. https://www.festivalculture.co.uk/_files/ugd/c7dade_e9fe78aa47c74e708eeb504262ef9837.pdf.
    Published
  13. Andrew Snyder; Erin T. Allen; Reebee Garofalo. "HONK!United: A Virtual Global Festival of Activist Brass Bands during the COVID-19 Pandemic". Music and Politics 16 1 (2022): 1-28. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mp/article/id/2337/.
    Published
  14. Snyder, Andrew. "Carnaval em casa: Activist Inversions in Rio de Janeiro's Street Carnival during the COVID-19 Pandemic". Journal of Festive Studies 3 1 (2022): 17-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2021.3.1.93.
    Published • 10.33823/jfs.2021.3.1.93
  15. Snyder, Andrew. "Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism.". Ethnomusicology 65 3 (2021): 519-548. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/article-abstract/65/3/519/287366/Carnival-Brass-Bands-in-New-Orleans-and-Rio-de?redirectedFrom=fulltext.
    Published
  16. Snyder, Andrew. "Politicizing Carnival Brass Bands in Olympic Rio de Janeiro: Instrumental Protest and Musical Repertoires of Contention". Latin American Music Review 41 1 (2020): 27-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/lamr41102.
    Published • 10.7560/lamr41102
  17. SNYDER, ANDREW. "Contraculture: Bird Names and the Degendering of Contra Dance". Yearbook for Traditional Music 51 (2019): 187-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ytm.2019.3.
    Published • 10.1017/ytm.2019.3
  18. Snyder, Andrew. "Playing the System: The Capitalist Industry of Participatory Music Education in Rio de Janeiro's Oficinas". Journal of Popular Music Studies 31 3 (2019): 119-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2019.313011.
    Published • 10.1525/jpms.2019.313011
  19. Snyder, Andrew. "From Nationalist Rescue to Internationalist Cannibalism: The Alternative Carnivaslesque, Brass, and the Revival of Street Carnival in Rio de Janeiro". Luso-Brazilian Review 56 1 (2019): 106-129. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/lbr.56.1.106.
    Published • 10.3368/lbr.56.1.106
Journal issue
  1. Andrew Snyder; Isabel Machado; Laurent Fournier. "Vol. 6 (2024) of Journal of Festive Studies: Sports and Festivity (Ed. Laurent Fournier)". Journal of Festive Studies 6 (2024): https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/issue/view/v6_sport_festivity.
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Snyder, Andrew; Isabel Machado; Aurélie Godet. "Vol. 5 (2023) of Journal of Festive Studies: Event Horizons (Eds. Graham St John and Sarah Pike) and Party Tourism (Ed. Alix Boirot)". Journal of Festive Studies 5 (2023): https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/issue/view/v5_event_horizons_party_tourism.
    Published • Coeditor
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Snyder, Andrew. "Critical Brass: The Alternative Brass Movement and Street Carnival Revival of Olympic Rio de Janeiro". PhD, University of California Berkeley Department of Music, 2018.

Artistic / Performance

Audio recording
  1. Mission Delirium; Independent Release (Producer). 2023. "Noise Complaint". In Noise Complaint, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4jGC33gnkn5dV4pMnbH16Y?si=VcZWx-NRSam984kDmuuKHA.
  2. Canaria Armada; Independent (Producer). 2020. "Calafia Armada". In Calafia Armada, Band Camp https://calafiaarmada.bandcamp.com/album/calafia-armada.
  3. Bagunço; Rio de Janeiro: Independent Release (Producer). 2016. "Bagunço". In Caos, Cosmos e Damião, https://open.spotify.com/album/4n38obpQtzyV1I8YDj5xXF?si=wpzpxjewTTaH7QMcErU6VA.
  4. Mission Delirium Brass Band; Independent (Producer). 2015. "Mission Delirium: Live in Rio!". In Mission Delirium: Live in Rio!, Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/3N0uEMfaoAfyMJW2kWZQDq?si=nEn580kMTJGSOj3i957rnQ.
  5. Kaizoku; Independent (Producer). 2015. "Kaizoku". In SF Sadistic, Band Camp https://thekaizoku123.bandcamp.com/album/sf-sadistic.
  6. Saxon and the Satisfactions; Indpendent (Producer). 2010. "Saxon and the Satisfactions". In EP, https://soundcloud.com/user-212290295/sets/saxon-and-the-satisfactions-ep.
  7. Cantores in Ecclesia and Mark Williams; Pro Organo CD 7225 (Producer). 2009. "Cantores in Ecclesia and Mark Williams". In The Gregorian Organ, https://open.spotify.com/album/4aJrA6X8PCS34OwEBP3O84?si=0Cya1_ieS2-GU7udKj-p2A.
  8. Cantores in Ecclesia; OCP CD 5536. (Producer). 2008. "Cantores in Ecclesia". In Inclina Domine, https://open.spotify.com/album/0TAh1Dg08nra4esE2OIm5z?si=SFSZOcm9TMSNwp4Nuuxubw.
Musical performance
  1. Invisible Tuba, Swing Band at Goethe Institut, Lisbon, Portugal. 2024.
    Instrumentalist
  2. Opening of Ernesto Neto's Nosso Barco Tambor Terra at Museu Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal;. 2024.
    Other
  3. Bué Tolo at Rock in Rio in Lisbon, Portugal. 2022.
  4. Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary; Mission Delirium Brass Band. 2019.
    Instrumentalist
  5. Tamborile Festival de Música de Calle, Mezquita de Jarque, Spain, Mission Delirium. 2017.
    Instrumentalist
  6. Festival du Monastier, France, Bagunço, band from Rio de Janeiro. 2016.
    Instrumentalist
  7. HONK RiO! Festival de Fanfarras Ativistas, Rio de Janeiro, Mission Delirium. 2015.
  8. New Parish, Oakland, CA; Mission Delirium in partnership with New Orleans’ Rebirth Brass Band. 2014.
    Instrumentalist
  9. HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands, Boston, MA, Brass Liberation Orchestra. 2012.
    Instrumentalist
  10. Empire Room (Empire State Building), New York City, Inspector Gadje, Balkan Brass. 2012.
    Instrumentalist
  11. Portland State University, Portland, OR, Tihai, Hindustan/jazz fusion group. 2010.
    Instrumentalist
  12. William Byrd Festival, Portland, OR, Cantores in Ecclesia, early music choir (2007-10). 2007.
    Tenor
  13. Prague, Czech Republic tour, St. Ann’s Choir, early music choir. 2006.
    Tenor
  14. Republic of Georgia tour, World music choir Village Harmony. 2005.
    Tenor
  15. Bulgaria tour, Village Harmony. 2003.
    Tenor
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/12/06 Keynote presentation: “HONK!: Las redes internacionales de bandas de bronces activistas y contra-culturales.” Simposio de bandas de bronces y activismo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Valparaíso, Chile)
2024/12/04 “Bandas de bronces disidentes en Río de Janeiro: Transformaciones de un movimiento de rescate carnavalesco hasta el activismo musical.” Lecture series
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Valparaíso, Chile)
2024/11/09 The Musicalization of Ernesto Neto’s Nosso Barco Tambor Terra in Lisbon Music and Movement: Lusophone Music Symposium
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Virtual (New Brunswick, NJ, USA, United States)
2024/10/23 Between Enchantment and Confrontation:’ Post- and De-colonial Theories and the Viability of the Brazilian Immigrant Carnival of Lisbon, Portugal Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (virtual)
Society for Ethnomusicology (Virtual, United States)
2024/10/19 Como Construir o Futuro (part of roundtable) Fórum do Instituto de Etnomusicologia-Centro de estudos em música e dança
Faculdade da Motricidade Humana (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/09/28 La viabilité et la mobilité de l'associativisme contemporain : une condition de possibilité musicale pour une fanfare alternative au Portugal Les tiers lieus de l'ethnomusicologie
Société française d’etnomusicologie (Pau, France)
2024/09/13 Structural xenophobia: the struggle for the viability of Lisbon’s Brazilian carnival (In)visible Publics: Performing (Non)Belonging
University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2024/06/14 Lisbon’s Brazilian Carnival and the Host Partnerships that Facilitate Migrant Festivity Social Inclusion, Community, and Belonging at International Music Festivals
University of Sheffield and Migration Matters Festival (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
2024/06/08 A participação de conjuntos de música das ex-colonias portuguesas no desfile do 25 de abril Quantas é Que Nós Somos: Uma Celebração da Revolução dos Cravos
Casa da Achada (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/04/05 From the Margins to the Center: The Campaign to Officialize Lisbon’s Brazilian Carnival British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (Cork, Ireland)
2024/03/13 De los márgenes al centro: La lucha por la oficialización International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance—Latin America
Casa de Las Américas (Havana, Cuba)
2023/11/25 Inter-Migrant Belonging for Non-Brazilian Migrants in Brazilian Carnival Practices in Lisbon, Portugal Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe
MDW–University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna, Austria)
2023/11/04 El activismo carnavalesco interseccional de Colombina Clandestina en el carnaval de Lisboa Sociedad Ibérica de la Etnomusicologia Annual Conference
Sociedad Ibérica de la Etnomusicologia (Granada, Spain)
2023/10/23 Portugal’s Brazilian Carnivals: Mediation, Migration, and Modeling Rethinking Carnival Conference
Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt, Germany)
2023/09/07 Postcolonial intimacies and citations in the Brazilian Street Carnival of Lisbon European Seminar in Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (Palermo, Italy)
2023/09/05 A Diplomacia Musical e Ativista nas Comemorações do Bicentenário da Independência do Brasil em Lisboa Annual Conference
Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/07/16 Traditional Associativism as a Socio-Economic Foundation for the Untraditional Ventures of a Portuguese Brass Band World Conference
International Council of Traditional Music (Accra, Ghana)
2023/04/16 Postcolonial Intimacies and Citations in the Brazilian Street Carnival of Lisbon, Portugal Music and Movement
British Forum for Ethnomusicology (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2022/11/12 Activist Musical Diplomacy in Carnival Performance at the Bicentennial Celebration of Brazilian Independence in Lisbon Annual Conference
Society of Ethnomusicology (New Orleans, LA, United States)
2022/11/04 Expat Migration and Baby Music Classes in an Internationalizing Lisbon Toddlers/Children's Songs - The Popular Music of the Youngest?
Klaus Kuhnke Institute for Popular Music at the Bremen University of the Arts (Bremen (virtual), Germany)
2022/10/15 Les fanfares du carnaval de la Nouvelle-Orléans et de Rio de Janeiro : le déshéritage, la blanchité alternative et l’éclectisme musical Les fêtes dans les Amériques :histoire et dynamiques contemporaines
INALCO (Paris, France)
2022/09/15 Baby Music Classes, Cultural Infrastructure, and Expatriate Immigration in an Internationalizing Lisbon Music, Migration, and Mobility (virtual)
Royal College of Music (London, United Kingdom)
2022/07/26 Contraculture: Bird Names and the Degendering of Contra Dance World Conference
International Council for Traditional Music (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/04/08 The Interdependence of Professionals and Amateurs in Propagating Rio de Janeiro’s Street Carnival Annual Conference
British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Open University (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
2022/03/30 Book talk on Critical Brass Activism and Critical Ethnography” seminar taught by Prof. David McDonald
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, United States)
2022/03/19 Inclusão, Folia e Deficiência no Carnaval de Rua do Rio de Janeiro Encontro Internacional sobre A CIDADE, O CORPO E O SOM
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/02/17 L’Inclusion et la féstivité des communautés handicapées dans le carnaval de rue de Rio de Janeiro C’est Carnaval! The Politics and Policy of Carnival
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
2022/01/15 Consensus Process in the Decision Making of an Alternative Brass Band Rethinking Participatory Processes Through Music (virtual)
British Academy and University of Huddersfield (Huddersfield, United Kingdom)
2021/12/13 Carnaval como Teoria e Prática do Ativismo no Movimento de Fanfarras Alternativas do Rio de Janeiro Lecture series
Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2021/10/29 Music and Social Justice in Quarantimes (in roundtable: New Paths for Justice-Oriented Ethnomusicological Research) Annual Conference (virtual)
Society For Ethnomusicology (United States)
2021/09/22 Carnaval em casa: Inversões ativistas no carnaval de rua do Rio de Janeiro Annual Conference (virtual)
Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (Prague, Czech Republic)
2021/06/05 Carnaval em casa: Activist Inversions in Rio de Janeiro’s Street Carnival during the COVID-19 Pandemic International Symposium on Festival Culture (virtual
Festival Culture Research and Education (United Kingdom)
2021/05/13 Virtual Research Methodologies of Rio de Janeiro’s Street Carnival during the Pandemic Brown Bag Session: Ethnography in the Time of COVID (virtual)
Latin American and Caribbean Section of Society for Ethnomusicology (United States)
2021/03/21 Activist Frictions at the Global HONK!United Virtual Festival Annual Conference (virtual)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US (United States)
2021 “Street Carnival and Activism in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro.” The Zeitgeist Project: Saudade Do Rio, New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival.
New York Public Library (New York City, United States)
2020/10/24 Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism Annual Conference (virtual)
Society for Ethnomusicology (United States)
2019/11/08 Larks and Ravens: The Degendering of Contra Dance Annual Conference
Society for Ethnomusicology, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, United States)
2019/11/06 Rio de Janeiro’s Neofanfarrismo Movement: Carnival as a Theory of Activism Pre-Conference Symposium on Heritage and the Politics of Inclusion in Latin American Brass Bands
Society for Ethnomusicology, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN, United States)
2019/03/24 Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism Annual Conference
Society for American Music (New Orleans, LA, United States)
2019/03/10 Globalized Brass Bands: Musical Eclecticism and Cultural Appropriation in Mission Delirium and the Honk Movement Annual Conference
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US (New Orleans, LA, United States)
2018/11/16 ’In Carnival You Can Do Anything:’ Contesting the Politics of Representation of Rio’s Satirical Carnival March Annual Conference
Society for Ethnomusicology (Albuquerque, NM, United States)
2018/06/07 Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism Lecture series
Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/05/26 Politicizing Carnival Brass Bands in Olympic Rio de Janeiro: Instrumental Protest and Musical Repertoires of Contention Annual Conference
Latin American Studies Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/05/24 You Say C D E, I say Do Re Mi: Conceptual and Cultural Differences in Spanish and English Music Studies Annual Conference
Latin American Studies Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/03/10 Politicizing Carnival Brass Bands in Olympic Rio de Janeiro: Instrumental Protest and Musical Repertoires of Contention Annual Conference
International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US (Nashville, TN, United States)
2018/02/24 The Capitalist Industry of Participatory Music Education in Rio de Janeiro’s Oficinas Annual Conference
Northern California Society for Ethnomusicology, UC Davis (Davis, CA, United States)
2017/10/26 Brass and the Revival of Street Carnival in Rio de Janeiro: From Nationalist Rescue to Internationalist Cannibalism Annual Conference
Society for Ethnomusicology (Denver, CO, United States)
2017/01/25 Brass and the Revival of Street Carnival in Rio de Janeiro: From Cultural Nationalism to Internationalist Cannibalism Annual Conference
Northern California Society for Ethnomusicology, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, United States)
2012/05/11 Ideologies of Listening: A Reception Study of Ali Akbar Khan in the US from 1963-1973 South Asia by the Bay
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, United States)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/09/03 - Current Ressonâncias: Música, Movimento e Transformação Social no M.O.V.E
Co-supervisor
Artes Musicais (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2024/03/04 - Current As dinâmicas sociais e musicais das bandas de pífanos do Agreste pernambucano: fluxos culturais globais e processos patrimoniais
Supervisor
Ethnomusicology (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2023/11/20 - Current Andam guitarras a gemer de mão em mão”: o bizarrismo do fado a partir (e além) do Fado Bicha
Supervisor
Ethnomusicology (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2023/01/09 - Current Música no limiar: Festivais e descentralização cultural
Supervisor
Ethnomusioclogy (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/05/01 - Current Canção é fogo que arde sem se ver: A música popular portuguesa e as crises de 2011
Supervisor
Ethnomusicology (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/01/15 - Current Improvisação livre: Processos de interação e negociação da identidade musical
Supervisor
Ethnomusicology (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/10/01 - 2023/07/24 Lisboa Soa: A festival at the crossroads between sound art, ecology, and environmental sustainability
Supervisor
MA in Ethnomusicology (Master)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/07/01 - 2025/06/30 Co-organization of the research symposium of the research group of Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies of the Instituto of Ethnomusicology in Portugal, occurring once or twice per month. (2024/07/01 - 2025/06/30)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
2024/04/01 - 2024/12/18 “Espace urbain et pratiques musicales : une scène politique sonore ?” (2024/12/18 - 2024/12/18)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, France
2020/02/29 - 2022/02/28 Organization of meeting of Northern California Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology (NCCSEM), as President of NCCSEM, UC Berkeley, February 29. (2020/02/29)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States
2021/10/02 - 2021/10/03 Organization of Symposium on the Music of Carnival, with Sean Bellaviti featuring keynote speaker Gage Averill jointly hosted virtually by the Instituto de Etnomusicologia at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Ryerson University, and Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, October 2-3. (2021/10/02 - 2021/10/03)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal

Government of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/02/01 - Current Columbia University Press (book proposal review)
2023/08/16 - Current Wesleyan University Press (book manuscript review)
2019/02/19 - Current Luso-Brazilian Review (ISSN: 0024-7413, e-I) University of Wisconsin Press
2024/10/23 - 2034/10/30 Tourism Geographies (1470-1340) Taylor and Francis
2024/08/04 - 2034/08/04 Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (2573-1432) Tagus Press in the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
2023/05/26 - 2033/09/29 Ethnomusiology (ISSN 0014-1836) University of Illinois Press
2024/12/09 - 2024/12/13 Sonic Rebellions II (book chapter review) Routledge
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/23 Journal of Extreme Anthropology (ISSN: 2535-3241) Universitetet i Oslo
2022/03/01 - 2022/10 Journal of Festive Studies (ISSN 2641-9939) Humanities-Net
2021/07/21 - 2022/02/17 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Online ISSN:1468-242) Urban Research Publications Limited
2020/10/13 - 2020/11/06 Estudios bandísticos/Wind Band Studies (ISSN: 2530-8041 (Pri) Spanish Bandmaster Association

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Latin American Section of Society for Ethnomusicology Panel Coordinator
2020/04/01 - 2022/03/31 Northern California Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology (NCCSEM) President

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021/09/25 - Current Questioner of Maria Teresa Lacerda for PhD thesis proposal
Advisor / Consultant
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/11/06 - 2025/06/30 Program committee member for conference of Sociedad de Etnomusicología Ibérica, Barcelona, Spain
Member
Sociedad de Etnomusicología Ibérica, Spain
2024/06/01 - 2024/08/15 President of the Society for Ethnomusicology invited me to serve on the Bruno Nettl Prize Committee in 2024 “To recognize an outstanding publication” in ethnomusicology.
Member
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/19 - 2024/01/19 Música e Ativismo/Music and Activism Ciências Musicais (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/31 Musics of the World Fall 2019 Musics of the World (Bachelor) University of California, Davis, United States
2019/01/15 - 2019/05/15 Berkeley Connect (undergraduate mentorship class with individual advising component) Spring 2019 Berkeley Connect (undergraduate mentorship class with individual advising component) University of California, Berkeley, United States
2018/08/11 - 2019/05/05 Music of the World's Peoples 5 sections in Fall/Spring 2018-19 Music (Bachelor) University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, United States
2018/06/30 - 2018/08/14 Music in Brazil (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2018/01/15 - 2018/05/15 Music Now (As TA) spring 2018 Music Now (As TA) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2017/08/20 - 2017/12/20 Music in American Cultures (as TA) Fall 2017 Music in American Cultures (as TA) (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2016/05/15 - 2016/07/05 Carnival: Music and Subversion (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2014/01/14 - 2014/05/15 Music in the Caribbean (As TA/reader) spring 2014 Music in the Caribbean (As TA/reader) (Bachelor) University of California, Berkeley, United States
2013/01/15 - 2013/12/19 Basic Musicianship Spring 2013 Basic Musicianship (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2013/01/09 - 2013/05/25 Introduction to Music Theory Spring 2013 Introduction to Music Theory (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2013/01/15 - 2013/05/15 Music in American Cultures (as TA) Spring 2013 Music in American Cultures (as TA) (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2012/08/20 - 2012/12/20 Basic Musicianship Basic Musicianship (Bachelor) University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2012/01/15 - 2012/05/15 Introduction to Western Music (As TA) spring 2012 (Bachelor) University of California, Berkeley, United States
2011/08/20 - 2011/12/20 Music in American Cultures (as TA) Fall 2011 Music in American Cultures (as TA) (Bachelor) University of California, Berkeley, United States

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2020 Postnationalism in the Street Carnival of Rio de Janeiro University of Wisconsin Press Blog

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/06/23 - Current New Books Network, Interview with ANDREW SNYDER, about Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro, Interviews with authors of new academic books, Celebration Studies
2023/03/03 - Current Batuques e Confetes, “Entrevista com Andrew Snyder.” Interview on Brazilian Podcast about carnival
2020 - Current New Books Network. Interview with Andrew Snyder, Reebee Garofalo & Erin Allen about book, “HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism.” Interviews with authors of new academic books, Celebration Studies

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/12/01 - Current TRANS-Transcultural Music Review (1697-0101) SIBE-Society for Ethnomusicology and IASPM-Spain (International Association for the Study of Popular Music)
2023/01/01 - Current Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis (2752-6348 ) (On board)
2022/11/01 - Current Journal of Festive Studies (2641-9939) H-NET
Distinctions

Award

2023 Winner of Ellen Koskoff Prize
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States
2023 Honorable mention for Bruno Nettl Prize
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States
2022 AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society
American Musicological Society Inc, United States
2021 Richard Waterman Article Award for "Carnaval em casa: Activist Inversions in Rio de Janeiro’s Street Carnival during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States
2018 Laurene Wu McClain & Charles J. McClain Award
University of California Berkeley Department of Music, United States
2018 Crossroads Music and Social Justice Prize for 2018 Presentation at Society for Ethnomusicology, “In Carnival You Can Do Anything”
2018 Portuguese Studies Program Research Grant
University of California, Berkeley, United States
2016 Foreign Language and Areas Studies Scholarship (FLAS) for study of Portuguese
Foreign Language and Areas Studies Scholarship (FLAS) , United States
2014 John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies
University of California Berkeley College of Letters and Science, United States

Title

2020 Contracted Researcher as recipient of Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Other distinction

2024 Nominated by Society for Ethnomusicology Board Nominating Committee for election to SEM Executive Board
Society for Ethnomusicology, United States
2024 Eduardo Herrera - Review of Brenda M. Romero, Susan M. Asai, David A. McDonald, Andrew G. Snyder, and Katelyn E. Best, editors, At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice
Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, United States
2023 Rachel Horner - Review of Andrew Snyder, Critical Brass: Street Carnival & Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, United States
2007 Phi Beta Kappa