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Summary:

"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"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

• Part 1, 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 battlegrounds / William Cheng
• Part 8, Clubs, bars, scenes. The queer concerns of nightlife fieldwork / Luis-Manuel Garcia ; Ethnographic positionality and psychoanalysis : a queer look at sex and race in fieldwork / Sarah Hankins ; "Man created homophobia, God created transformistas" : saluting the oríchá in a Cuban gay bar / Cory W. Thorne ; On serendipity : or, toward a sensual ethnography / Peter McMurray.

Contributors:

Barz, Gregory F., 1960- , editor

Cheng, William, 1985- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Subjects:

Ethnomusicology

Homosexuality and music

Gender identity in music

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index: pages 397-428.

Physical Description:

xx, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

ML3798 .Q43 2020

ISBNs:

9780190458027 (hardcover)
019045802X (hardcover)
9780190458034 (paperback)
0190458038 (paperback)
9780190458065 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40029519772

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019005239

OCLC Numbers:

1086542185