Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Musicology & Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies and African American Studies at Boston University, is author of Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific (Oxford UP, 2018). His work, mostly focusing on black Colombians, examines the ways that blackness has been framed through music, states’ cultural policies and social movements’ cultural politics, black cosmopolitanism, vernacular uses of technology, musical circulation, ontological framings of music as practice or object, the politics of loudness, and ritual soundscapes.