intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance: race, gender, vulnerability
Honourable Mention for Society for Ethnomusicology - Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize

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.
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intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance: race, gender, vulnerability
Honourable Mention for Society for Ethnomusicology - Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize

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.
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intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance: race, gender, vulnerability

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Honourable Mention for Society for Ethnomusicology - Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781648250675
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 04/15/2025
Series: ISSN
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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

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

AMA OFORIWAA ADUONUM is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Public Scholar at Illinois State Universityat Normal, IL.

Table of Contents

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
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