Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “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, Université 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
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
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