INET-md’s researcher selected as general editor of the journal Ethnomusicology

Andrew Snyder, full researcher at INET-md, was selected to be the next General Editor of the journal  Ethnomusicology, taking up this position from 2027 to 2030.

Ethnomusicology, published by the University of Illinois Press, is the flagship journal of the field of ethnomusicology and the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology with seventy years of history. Previously held by field luminaries including Alan Merrian, Bruno Nettl, Timothy Rice and Ellen Koskoff, the position of General Editor provides the opportunity to shape and give voice to the conversations of the field going forward. 

Andrew was selected after a general call for applications following the term of Katherine Brucher, a North American ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on Portuguese bandas filarmónicas. Andrew had come to follow the journal since his time as a graduate student beginning in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, when he frequently visited the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He has published twice in the journal. The first article, “Carnival Brass Bands in New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: Disinheritance, Alternative Whiteness, and Musical Eclecticism” (2021), was drawn from a paper developed in the seminar of Salwa Castelo-Branco when she was Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. The second, forthcoming, was written in collaboration with Luso-American researcher Miguel Moniz (CRIA), under the title of “Associativism as the Condition of Musical Possibility for an Alternative Brass Band in Portugal: Innovation, Viability and European Integration”.

The invitation is, thus, made to other INET-md colleagues to deepen their relationship with this prestigious journal and to consider it for the publication of their work.