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DESCRIPTION:UCR Department of Music\nWednesday@Noon via Zoom Presentation  
 \n\nMichael Birenbaum Quintero \n\nEthnomusicologist and Afro-Colombian mus
 ic scholar \nJonathan Ritter\, coordinator                  \n\nBetween Leg
 ibility and Alterity. Musical Knowledge\, Cultural Policy\, Economic Develo
 pment\, and Black Self-Making in Multiculturalist Colombia.\n\nTraditional 
 Colombian Pacific music has been recast by Afro-Colombian artists\, activis
 ts\, and intellectuals\, and the Colombian state as a touchstone for cultur
 al difference and a resource for a contradictory agendas: economic developm
 ent\, social amelioration\, governance\, and local activism. The new promin
 ence of black Pacific music breaks with a long history of marginality\, but
  the price for legitimation has been the squeezing of Afro-Colombian cultur
 al and aesthetic particularities into formal and discursive frames legible 
 to consumers\, granting agencies\, cultural policy instantiations\, and oth
 er outside interlocutors. Fluency in these reifying formal and discursive t
 ranslations is a competency that not everyone possesses or finds palatable.
  The underlying political question\, then\, is how the selfsame legitimatio
 n of certain forms of black culture excludes that majority of black Colombi
 ans who are unwilling or unable to provide the particular combination of le
 gibility and self-exoticization that neoliberal multiculturalism requires. 
 \n\nMay 5\, 2021\nWednesday\, 12:00-12:50 P.M. PDT\nZoom\nFree and open to 
 the public. \n\nPlease register in advance for this event: \nhttps://ucr.zo
 om.us/meeting/register/tJYkfu6gpz8sE93ClD3RHJrCzFBE57Bwmd-R \nAfter registe
 ring\, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining
  the presentation.\n\nMichael Birenbaum Quintero is Associate Professor of 
 Music and Chair of the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department at Boston Un
 iversity. His work\, mostly focusing on black Colombians\, examines musical
  constructions of blackness\, cultural policy and cultural politics\, neoli
 beral multiculturalism\, affective politics\, musical circulation\, violenc
 e and trauma\, loudness\, historical ethnomusicology\, music streaming algo
 rithms and the affect of late capitalism\, Latinx/African-American interact
 ions in Afro-Cuban religion\, and ritual soundscapes in Havana\, New York C
 ity\, and Ọ̀yọ̀ (Nigeria). His monograph Rites\, Rights and Rhythms: A Gene
 alogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific (Oxford UP\, 2018) was
  awarded a 2020 Ruth Stone Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology. Outsid
 e the academy\, he has directed a grassroots Afro-Colombian community music
  archive\; designed cultural policy initiatives with the Colombian Ministry
  of Culture\; performed traditional music and organized tours with Colombia
 n musicians\; and collaborated with the Afro-Colombian activist organizatio
 n Proceso de Comunidades Negras and with Latinx\, Black\, working-class\, a
 nd socialist organizers at home in Massachusetts.\nhttps://www.bu.edu/cfa/p
 rofile/michael-birenbaum-quintero/\n\nInformation: \nperformingarts@ucr.edu
   music.ucr.edu\n\nView the 2020-2021 Wednesday@ Noon series here
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SUMMARY:UCR Music Wednesday@Noon: Michael Birenbaum Quintero\, ethnomusicol
 ogist and Afro-Colombian music scholar  
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