1st Edition

Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies Essays in Honour of John Baily

Edited By Stephen Cottrell, Dafni Tragaki, Stephen Wilford Copyright 2024
232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.