Sidra Lawrence & Michelle Kisliuk 
intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance [EPUB ebook] 
race, gender, vulnerability

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings.


Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political.


Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

Jadual kandungan

Foreword: Let It Get Into You

Deborah Kapchan

Acknowledgements


Introduction: On Intimate Entanglements

Sidra Lawrence


1. Yusef’s Breath: Jazz Love, Cross-Racial Identification, and Paying Dues

Tracy Mc Mullen

2. Three Reflections, with Epilogue

Steven Cornelius

3. Modulating Flawed Bodies: Intimate Acoustemologies, Chronic Pain, and Ethnographic Pianism

Mark Lomanno

4. Performing Desire: Race, Sex, and the Ethnographic Encounter

Sidra Lawrence

5. Thick Descriptions

Catherine M. Appert

6. Entering the Lives of Others: Entangled Intimacies, Trauma, and Performance

Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum

7. Ethnomusicological Empathy: Excavating a Black Graduate Student’s Heartland

Danielle Davis

8. Ethnomusicological Becoming: Deep Listening as Erotics in the Field

Carol Muller

9. Mirror Dancing in Congo: Reflections on Fieldwork as Blanche Neige

Lesley N. Braun

10. Ethnography and Its Double(s): Theorizing the Personal with Jews in Ghana

Michelle Kisliuk


Notes on Contributors

Index

Mengenai Pengarang

AMA OFORIWAA ADUONUM is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Public Scholar at Illinois State University at Normal, IL.