intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance

race, gender, vulnerability
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64825-063-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 268 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings.

Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political.

Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kisliuk, Michelle

Lawrence, Sidra

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa

Appert, Catherine M.

Braun, Lesley

Cornelius, Steven

Davis, Danielle

Kapchan, Deborah A.

Lomanno, Mark

McMullen, Tracy

Muller, Carol Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Let It Get Into You
Deborah Kapchan
Acknowledgements

Introduction: On Intimate Entanglements
Sidra Lawrence

1. Yusef's Breath: Jazz Love, Cross-Racial Identification, and Paying Dues
Tracy McMullen
2. Three Reflections, with Epilogue
Steven Cornelius
3. Modulating Flawed Bodies: Intimate Acoustemologies, Chronic Pain, and Ethnographic Pianism
Mark Lomanno
4. Performing Desire: Race, Sex, and the Ethnographic Encounter
Sidra Lawrence
5. Thick Descriptions
Catherine M. Appert
6. Entering the Lives of Others: Entangled Intimacies, Trauma, and Performance
Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum
7. Ethnomusicological Empathy: Excavating a Black Graduate Student's Heartland
Danielle Davis
8. Ethnomusicological Becoming: Deep Listening as Erotics in the Field
Carol Muller
9. Mirror Dancing in Congo: Reflections on Fieldwork as Blanche Neige
Lesley N. Braun
10. Ethnography and Its Double(s): Theorizing the Personal with Jews in Ghana
Michelle Kisliuk

Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lawrence, Sidra
SIDRA LAWRENCE is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University.

Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa
AMA OFORIWAA ADUONUM is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Public Scholar at Illinois State University at Normal, IL.

Kisliuk, Michelle
MICHELLE KISLIUK is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia.