1st Edition
Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies Essays in Honour of John Baily
Ethnomusicology 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 intimacy? How are the longstanding relationships we develop with others particularly intimated by and through musicking? How do we understand the musically intimate relationships of others and how do these inflect our own musical intimacies? How does music represent, inscribe, constrain, or provoke social or personal intimacies in particular contexts?
The volume will appeal to all scholars with interests in music and how it is used to construct relationships in different contexts around the world.
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction
STEPHEN COTTRELL, DAFNI TRAGAKI, AND STEPHEN WILFORD
PART I
Musical Intimacy in Performance
Introspection I
HENRY STOBART
1 Friendship and Ethnomusicological Fieldwork in Times of Trouble
PAUL F. BERLINER
2 Spiritual and Emotional Dimensions of Female Lullaby Singing in Afghanistan
VERONICA DOUBLEDAY
3 Afghan Wars and Musical Intimacy
JAMES KIPPEN
PART II
Intimate Confessions and Biographical Strategies
Introspection II
MARGARET SARKISSIAN
4 Radio and the Music Confessional
STEPHEN COTTRELL
5 Amīr Ḳhusraw Between Balkh and Delhi: The Transnational Legacies of an Indo-Afghan Poet-Musician
WILLIAM REES HOFMANN
6 Meetings with Masterly Musicians: Collaboration, Creation, and Curation in the Pursuit of Ethnomusicological Knowledge
KEITH HOWARD
7 Searching for a Voice: An Anatolian Tale
MARTIN STOKES
PART III
Filmic Intimacies
Introspection III
ANDRÉ SINGER
8 Intimacy in Ethnographic Film: Listening to How to Improve the World by Nguyễn Trinh Thi
BARLEY NORTON
9 The Sonic Intimacies of Khosrow Sinai’s A Lost Requiem (1983)
LAUDAN NOOSHIN
10 Intoxicated Intimacies: Drunken Heroes in Greek Popular Film and Song
DAFNI TRAGAKI
Epilogue: Digital Intimacies? ‘Doing’ Ethnomusicology in a Socially Distanced World
STEPHEN WILFORD
Index
Biography
Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London, UK.
Dafni Tragaki is Assistant Professor in Music Anthropology at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece.
Stephen Wilford is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Popular Music and Sound Studies within the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge, UK.