1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology
The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this discipline and its current practices. In 26 representative cases from across a broad spectrum of geographical, societal, and musical environments, authors collectively reflect on the impacts of ethnomusicological research, exploring the ways our work may instantiate privilege or risk bringing harm, as well as the means that are available to provide recognition, benefit, and reciprocation to the musicians and others who contribute to our studies. In a world where differing ethical values are often in conflict, and where music itself is meanwhile a powerful tool in projecting moral claims, we aim to uncover the conditions and consequences of the ethical choices we face as ethnomusicologists, thereby contributing to building a more engaged, restructured discipline and a more globally responsible music studies. The volume comprises four parts: (1) sound practices and philosophies of ethics; (2) fieldwork encounters; (3) environment, trauma, collaboration; and (4) research in public domains.
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Ethics in Ethnomusicological Research: Historical Perspectives, Emergent Challenges
Jonathan P. J. Stock
PART I: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics
2 Introduction: Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics
Beverley Diamond
3 Some Precepts Taught by Two Cree Elders and Their Implications for Talking about Music
Carl Urion
4 Ethical Responsiveness at the Intersection of Critical Indigenous Studies and Music Scholarship
Monique Giroux
5 Double the Danger in Writing: Toward Feminist and Decolonial Response-Abilities in Ethnomusicology
Elizabeth Mackinlay
6 Music as Ethics in an American Intentional Community
Andy McGraw
7 Empathy, Compassion, and Cultural Intimacy
Martin Stokes
8 Music and the Immorality of Ethnography
Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
PART II: Fieldwork Encounters
9 Introduction: Fieldwork Encounters
Jonathan P. J. Stock
10 White Caste Supremacy and Dis/connection in Fieldwork Encounters
Stefan Fiol
11 Standing with: Ethnomusicologists as Industry Colleagues in the Field
Ioannis Tsioulakis
12 Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Safeguarding of the Indigenous Shona Mbira Music Heritage of Zimbabwe: Ethical Issues Revisited
Perminus Matiure
13 Don’t Be Like the Jebarra: Reconsidering the Ethics of Ethnomusicological Practice in an Indigenous Australian Context
Sally Treloyn and Rona Goonginda Charles
14 Good Research versus Ethical Participation at Muslim Women’s Ceremonies in Iran
Mohammad Reza Azadehfar and Fatemeh Mirtaheri
15 Becoming Family: A Female Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Fieldwork in Central Asia
Razia Sultanova
16 “I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife”: Negotiating Heteronormative Research Spaces as a Gay Man
Jared Mackley-Crump
PART III : Environment, Trauma, Collaboration
17 Introduction: Environment, Trauma, Collaboration
Jonathan P. J. Stock
18 Ethical Considerations for Ethnomusicologists in the Midst of Environmental Crisis
Jeff Todd Titon
19 Mining for Music: Ethical Entanglements in Lihir, Papua New Guinea
Kirsty Gillespie
20 Between the Cracks: Navigating Trauma as an Ethnomusicologist
Rebecca Dirksen
21 Collaborative Video-Making with Young Women in Ethiopia: Responding to Violence, Exploring Challenges, Demonstrating Resistance
Leila Qashu
22 Ethics vs. Ethnic Issues: Negotiating a Fieldworker’s Status in Xinjiang
Mu Qian
23 Arts, Organizations, and Ethnomusicology: Ethical Considerations in the Contexts of Health and Development Work
Kathleen J. Van Buren
PART IV: Research in Public Domains
24 Introduction: Research in Public Domains
Beverley Diamond
25 “The West and the Rest”: Power (Im)Balances in Musical Museum Spaces
Kathleen Wiens
26 Unsettling the Score: The Case of Naačnaača
Jeremy Strachan
27 Ethical Dimensions in Ethnomusicology for Policy
Simon McKerrell
28 Images beyond Consent: Developing an Ethics of Cine-Ethnomusicology
Benjamin J. Harbert
29 “A Week from Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe Not”: Navigating Ethics in the Production of Student-Made Films about Music and Dementia
Jennie Gubner
PART V: Afterword
30 Afterword: Complicating the Conversation about Ethics in the Pluriverse
Beverley Diamond
Index
Biography
Jonathan P. J. Stock is Professor of Music at University College Cork.
Beverley Diamond is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
