Juan Diego Díaz is Associate Professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Davis. He researches musics of the Black Atlantic, with a focus on Brazil and West Africa. His books include Tabom Voices: A history of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in their Own Words (2016) and Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil (2021). He also co-directed the documentary Tabom in Bahia (2017) with Nilton Pereira.