Andrew Snyder
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Raised in the traditional music communities of Sacred Harp singing, Old Time music, and Contradancing in the Southeast of the United States, Dr. Andrew Snyder has been interested in diverse music cultures since his childhood. A trumpeter, singer, guitarist, and pianist, he has played in a wide range of styles and ensembles, including brass bands, jazz, Brazilian music, Balkan music, and classical music, and he is co-founder of San Francisco’s Mission Delirium Brass Band.
With a background in Romance languages, Andrew focused on music in Brazil for his doctoral dissertation in Ethnomusicology, completed in 2018 at the University of California-Berkeley. His dissertation is the basis of his book project, Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), and it focuses on the vibrant community of carnival brass bands in contemporary Rio that has come to view itself as an activist movement during a period of political crisis. Various articles have appeared on this research as well as other topics.
During the completion of his PhD and afterwards, Andrew has been involved in collaborative projects as a co-editor of two books: HONK! A Street Music Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge 2020), which focuses on the movements and festivals of the global network of alternative brass band, At the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice (Indiana University Press 2021), and Festival Activism (Indiana University Press 2021). At the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he is now focused on Brazilian music in Lisbon Portugal and the "postcolonial intimacies" expressed in the musical relationships between these two countries.
Supervisors: Prof. Jocelyne Guilbault and Prof. Christopher Dunn
Phone: 4702578277
Raised in the traditional music communities of Sacred Harp singing, Old Time music, and Contradancing in the Southeast of the United States, Dr. Andrew Snyder has been interested in diverse music cultures since his childhood. A trumpeter, singer, guitarist, and pianist, he has played in a wide range of styles and ensembles, including brass bands, jazz, Brazilian music, Balkan music, and classical music, and he is co-founder of San Francisco’s Mission Delirium Brass Band.
With a background in Romance languages, Andrew focused on music in Brazil for his doctoral dissertation in Ethnomusicology, completed in 2018 at the University of California-Berkeley. His dissertation is the basis of his book project, Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), and it focuses on the vibrant community of carnival brass bands in contemporary Rio that has come to view itself as an activist movement during a period of political crisis. Various articles have appeared on this research as well as other topics.
During the completion of his PhD and afterwards, Andrew has been involved in collaborative projects as a co-editor of two books: HONK! A Street Music Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge 2020), which focuses on the movements and festivals of the global network of alternative brass band, At the Crossroads: Music and Social Justice (Indiana University Press 2021), and Festival Activism (Indiana University Press 2021). At the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he is now focused on Brazilian music in Lisbon Portugal and the "postcolonial intimacies" expressed in the musical relationships between these two countries.
Supervisors: Prof. Jocelyne Guilbault and Prof. Christopher Dunn
Phone: 4702578277
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In five parts, musicians, activists, and scholars voiced in various local contexts cover a range of themes and topics:
• History and Scope
• Repertoire, Pedagogy, and Performance
• Inclusion and Organization
• Festival Organization and Politics
• On the Front Lines of Protest
The HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands began in Somerville, Massachusetts in 2006 as an independent, non-commercial street festival, and it has since spread to four continents. HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism investigates how street bands and musicians seek to change the world and provide musical, social, and political alternatives in contemporary times.
In five parts, musicians, activists, and scholars voiced in various local contexts cover a range of themes and topics:
• History and Scope
• Repertoire, Pedagogy, and Performance
• Inclusion and Organization
• Festival Organization and Politics
• On the Front Lines of Protest
The HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands began in Somerville, Massachusetts in 2006 as an independent, non-commercial street festival, and it has since spread to four continents. HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism investigates how street bands and musicians seek to change the world and provide musical, social, and political alternatives in contemporary times.