Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity

Silence=Death
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-15315-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork; queerness’s functioning as Anglophone master category; and both domains’ devaluation of sensuality and experience, concomitant with an adherence to provincial, Western conceptions of knowledge production, are revealed as precluding the possibilities for equitable, dialogic pluriversality.  Enlisting the sonic as theoretical intervention, the disciplined/disciplining ethno and queer are reimagined in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect, ultimately vanquished, and replaced by explorations of sound, sex/uality, and experiential somaticity within a protean, postdisciplinary space of material/epistemic equity.  This uncompromising, long-overdue critique will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous theoretical backgrounds, including music, sound, gender, queer, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amico, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:  Introduction:  Silencing

Chapter 2:  ‘This Is to Enrage You’

Chapter 3:  We Don’t Need Another Hero

Chapter 4:  Street Cred and Locker Room Glances

Chapter 5:  Diverse People in Special Places

Chapter 6:  (No) Body/(No) Homo

Chapter 7:  Affecting the Colonist

Chapter 8:  Non-Fundamental Tones; or, the Pharmakon of Silence

Chapter 9:  Conclusion:  ‘Such People Do Not Exist’

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Amico is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality (2014).