Description
Book SynopsisEthnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy, a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality, within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound. These scholarly essays reflect on a range of interactions between individuals and communities that deepen connections and associations, and which may be played out relatively briefly or nurtured over time.
Three major sections on Performance, Auto/biographical Strategies, and Film are each prefaced by an interview with a scholar or practitioner with close knowledge of the subject that links the chapters in that section. Often drawing directly on fieldwork experience in a variety of contexts, authors consider how concepts of intimacy can illuminate the ethnographic study of music, addressing questions such as: how can we understand ethnomusicological and ethnographic research and performance as processes of musically mediated intima
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Musical Intimacy in Performance
Introspection I
Chapter 1: The Intimacy of Interlocking
Chapter 2: Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in Afghanistan
Chapter 3: Afghan Wars and Musical Intimacy
Part II: Intimate Confessions and Biographical Strategies
Introspection II
Chapter 4: Radio and the Music Confessional
Chapter 5: Amīr Kòhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician
Chapter 6: Meetings With Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological Knowledge
Chapter 7: Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian Tale
Part III: Filmic Intimacies
Introspection III
Chapter 8: Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Chapter 9: The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai’s A Lost Requiem (1983)
Chapter 10: Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and Song
Epilogue: Digital Ethnomusicology in a Socially-Distanced World
