
Part I: Foreword. Queering The Field: A Foreword / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Part 2: Introduction. Queering The Field: An Introduction / Gregory Barz -- Part 3: Queer Silences. Sounding Out-ethnomusicology: Theoretical Reflection On Queer Fieldnotes And Performance / Zoe C. Sherinian; Uncomfortable Positions: Expertise And Vulnerability In Queer Postcolonial Fieldwork / Nicol Hammond; Queer In The Field?: What Happens When Neither Queer Nor The Field Is Clearly Defined? / Gillian M. Rodger -- Part 4: Out/in The Field. I Don't Think We Are Safe Around You: Queering Fieldwork In Ethnomusicology / Gregory Barz; Queerness, Ambiguity, Ethnography / Christi-anne Castro; Outing The Methodological No-no: Translating Queer Space To Field Space / Alexander M. Cannon; Queer Fieldwork In A Queer Field Under Surveillance: Musical Spaces In Cuba's Gay Ambiente / Moshe Morad -- Part 5: Queerness In Action. Con/figuring Transgender-hījṛā Music And Dance Through Queer Ethnomusicological Filmmaking / Jeff Roy; Queer Hip Hop Or Hip-hop Queerness?: Toward A Queer Of Color Music Studies / Matthew Leslie Santana; Going Through The Motions: Transgender Performance In Topeng Cirebon From North Java, Indonesia / Henry Spiller; Fielding The Field: Belonging, Disciplinarity, And Queer Scholarly Lives / Tes Slominski -- Part 6: Institutions And Intersections. The Lion, The Witch, And The Closet: Heteronormative Institutional Research And The Queering Of Traditions / Aileen Dillane And Nic Gareiss; I'm Not Gay, I'm Black: Assumptions And Limitations Of The Normative Queer Gaze In A Panamanian Dance-drama / Heather J. Paudler -- Part 7: Who's Queer (w)here?. Self And/as Subject: Respectability, Abjection, And The Alterity Of Studying What You Are / Amber R. Clifford-napoleone; Straight To The Heart: Heteronormativity, Flirtation, And Autoethnography At Home And Away / Kathryn Alexander; Coming Through Loud And Queer: Ethnomusicological Ethics Of Voice And Violence In Real And Virtual Battlegrou
This volume investigates how queer theory and methodology intersect with the practice of ethnomusicological fieldwork. Edited by Gregory Barz and William Cheng, the text compiles essays from various scholars who examine the challenges of navigating identity, vulnerability, and institutional norms while conducting ethnographic research on music and performance globally.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars in the field recognize this work as a significant contribution to the reflexive turn in music studies. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the importance of its focus on the ethical complexities of researcher positionality.
Page Count:
384
Publication Date:
2019-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0190458046
ISBN-13:
9780190458041
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