PROGRAMME 2023
'Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific'
Cimarron Project with the support of the Colombian Consulate in London and Colombia Nos Une, are pleased to invite you to a talk with Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero from Boston University.
A presentation of his book 'Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific' (Oxford University Press, 2019), winner of the Society for Ethnomusicology's 2020 Ruth Stone Prize.
Free Event: Reservation required, See below
Date: Friday 10th March
Time: 6.30pm-8.30pm
Address: Colombian Consulate in London
Westcott House, 35 Portland Place W1B 1AE
Free Tickets to be Reserved from the Eventbrite link below:
'Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific' is the first book-length academic study of currulao music, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to generate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to illuminate a history of struggles over the meanings of currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia.
Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, 'Rites, Rights & Rhythms' asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemisphere's most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.
Michael Birenbaum Quintero received his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Ethnomusicology at New York University. His research focuses on the music of the black inhabitants of Colombia's Pacific coast region, cultural politics, violence and trauma, black cosmopolitanism, and vernacular uses of technology. He is Associate Professor of Music, Latin American Studies, and African American Studies at Boston University.
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