Michael started following the work of Amanda Minks.
Michael started following the work of Alejandro L. Madrid, University of Illinois at Chicago, Latin American and Latino Studies.
Michael started following the work of Lori Flores, Stony Brook University, History.
Faculty Member, Music
Assistant Professor
About
Michael Birenbaum Quintero is an ethnomusicologist. He defended his doctoral dissertation on multiculturalism, the Afro-Colombian political movement, and currulao music at New York University in 2009.
In the course of his work, he 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, the activist organization Proceso de Comunidades Negras, and the community music archive of the Asociacion de Investigaciones Culturales del Choco in Colombia. He has also worked closely with Afro-Colombian musicians, and is the founder and director of Afro-Colombian Marimba Ensembles at NYU and Bowdoin College.
He has received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the NYU Humanities Institute, the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize, and honorable mention for the Lise Waxer Prize of the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. After a Mellon Postdoctoral “Concepts of Diaspora” Fellowship at the Dept. of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and the Musicology Department at Peabody Conservatory, he is now an Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Bowdoin College |
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347.994.9691 |
