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.