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• Winner of Winner of the 2020 Ruth Stone Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with. * Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois * This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. * Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival *

This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with. --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois

This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival ""Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with."" --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois

"This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival ""Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with."" --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois"

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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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