Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

by Evangelos Chrysagis (Editor), Panas Karampampas (Editor)

Overview

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. Highlighting the sheer physicality of the ethnographic encounter, as well as the forms of sociality that gradually emerge between self and other, each contribution demonstrates how dance and music open up pathways and give shape to life trajectories that are neither predetermined nor teleological, but generative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785334535
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Dance and Performance Studies , #10
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Evangelos Chrysagis holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research explored the intersection of ‘Do-it-Yourself’ (DiY) music practices and ethics in Glasgow. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Cultural Economy and Visual Culture in Britain. Evangelos serves as associate editor of the open-access journal Arts & International Affairs, and his current research focuses on manifestos in contemporary cultural production.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Collaborative Intimacies
Evangelos Chrysagis and Panas Karampampas

PART I: SOUND, MEANING AND SELF-AWARENESS

Chapter 1. Being in Sound: Reflections on Recording while Practicing Aikido and Shakuhachi
Tamara Kohn and Richard Chenhall

Chapter 2. Performing and Narrating Selves in and through Classical Music: Being ‘Japanese’ and Being a Professional Musician in London
Yuki Imoto

PART II: PEDAGOGIES OF BODILY MOVEMENT

Chapter 3. Kinaesthetic Intimacy in a Choreographic Practice
Brenda Farnell and Robert N. Wood

Chapter 4. The Presentation of Self in Participatory Dance Settings: Data Collecting with Erving Goffman
Bethany Whiteside

PART III: MUSIC PRACTICES AND ETHICAL SELFHOOD

Chapter 5. The Animador as Ethical Mediator:  Stage Talk and Subject Formation at Peruvian Huayno Music Spectacles
James Butterworth

Chapter 6. A Sense of Togetherness: Music Promotion and Ethics in Glasgow
Evangelos Chrysagis

PART IV: BODIES DANCING IN TIME AND ACROSS SPACE

Chapter 7. Rumba: Heritage, Tourism and the ‘Authentic’ Afro-Cuban Experience
Ruxandra Ana

Chapter 8. Cinematic Dance as a Local Critical Commentary on the ‘Economic Crisis’: Exploring Dance in Korydallos, Attica, Greece
Mimina Pateraki

PART V: MOTION, IRONY AND THE MAKING OF LIFEWORLDS

Chapter 9. Performing Irony on the Dance Floor: The Many Faces of Goth Irony in the Athenian Goth Scene
Panas Karampampas

Chapter 10. The Intoxicating Intimacy of Drum Strokes, Sung Verses and Dancing Steps in the All-Night Ceremonies of Ambonwari (Papua New Guinea)
Borut Telban

Index

Editorial Reviews

“The book chapters demonstrate rich ethnographic and disciplinary diversity.” • Social Anthropology

“Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance is an innovative collection of sound and movement anthropologies. These interdisciplinary texts employ the timely and sharp lens of critical studies while engaging with post-colonial cultural studies. A vital, exemplary collection of ethnographic writing.” • Dena Davida, Universityé du Québec à Montréal

“An absolutely fascinating collection. The diverse case studies in this book wonderfully explore the contrasts between different cultural attitudes toward the practices of music-making and dance.” • Yvon Bonenfant, University of Winchester

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