Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology

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• ISBN 10: 0190458054
• ISBN 13: 9780190458058
• Author: Gregory Barz, William Cheng

Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology. The thematic structure of the volume reflects a deliberate cartography of queer spaces in the discipline-spaces that are strongly present due to their absence, are marked by direct sonic parameters, or are called into question by virtue of their otherness. As the first large-scale study of ethnomusicology’s queer silences and queer identity politics, Queering the Field directly addresses the normativities currently at play in musical ethnography (fieldwork, analysis, performance, transcription) as well as in the practice of musical ethnographers (identification, participation, disclosure, observation, authority). While rooted in strong narrative convictions, the authors frequently adopt radicalized voices with the goal of queering a hierarchical sexual binary. The essays in the volume present rhetorical and syntactical scenarios that challenge us to read in prescient singular ways for future queer writing and queer thought in ethnomusicology.

Table of contents:

1. Part 1. Foreword
2. 1. Queering the Field: A Foreword
3. Part 2. Introduction
4. 2. Queering the Field: An Introduction
5. Part 3. Queer Silences
6. 3. Sounding Out-Ethnomusicology: Theoretical Reflection on Queer Fieldnotes and Performance
7. 4. Uncomfortable Positions: Expertise and Vulnerability in Queer Postcolonial Fieldwork
8. 5. Queer in the Field? What Happens When Neither “Queer” Nor “The Field” Is Clearly Defined?
9. Part 4. Out/In the Field
10. 6. “I Don’t Think We Are Safe around You”: Queering Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
11. 7. Queerness, Ambiguity, Ethnography
12. 8. Outing the Methodological No-No: Translating Queer Space to Field Space
13. 9. Queer Fieldwork in a Queer Field under Surveillance: Musical Spaces in Cuba’s Gay Ambiente
14. Part 5. Queerness in Action
15. 10. Con/Figuring Transgender-Hījṛā Music and Dance through Queer Ethnomusicological Filmmaking
16. 11. Queer Hip Hop or Hip-Hop Queerness? Toward a Queer of Color Music Studies
17. 12. Going through the Motions: Transgender Performance in Topeng Cirebon from North Java, Indonesia
18. 13. Fielding the Field: Belonging, Disciplinarity, and Queer Scholarly Lives
19. Part 6. Institutions and Intersections
20. 14. The Lion, the Witch, and the Closet: Heteronormative Institutional Research and the Queering of “Traditions”
21. 15. “I’m Not Gay, I’m Black”: Assumptions and Limitations of the Normative Queer Gaze in a Panamanian Dance-Drama
22. Part 7. Who’s Queer (W)Here?
23. 16. Self and/as Subject: Respectability, Abjection, and the Alterity of Studying What You Are
24. 17. Straight to the Heart: Heteronormativity, Flirtation, and Autoethnography at Home and Away
25. 18. Coming through Loud and Queer: Ethnomusicological Ethics of Voice and Violence in Real and Virtual Battlegrounds
26. Part 8. Clubs, Bars, Scenes
27. 19. The Queer Concerns of Nightlife Fieldwork
28. 20. Ethnographic Positionality and Psychoanalysis: A Queer Look at Sex and Race in Fieldwork
29. 21. “Man Created Homophobia, God Created Transformistas”: Saluting the Oríchá in a Cuban Gay Bar
30. 22. On Serendipity: Or, Toward a Sensual Ethnography

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