Andrew Snyder received his PhD in ethnomusicology from UC Berkeley and is currently a Research Fellow in the Ethnomusicology Institute (INET-md) at NOVA University Lisbon in Portugal. He is the author of Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan 2022) and Postcolonial Intimacy: Brazilian Music and Carnival in Portugal (Chicago, forthcoming). He is coeditor of the Journal of Festive Studies; HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge 2020); Festival Activism (Indiana 2025); and At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice (Indiana 2022). He is also an active trumpeter and guitarist. http://www.andrewsnydermusic.com