Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity

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 masculinityindissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemonyand 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.

Explores the disciplinary and interdisciplinary sites, productions and relations of ethnomusicology and queerness Argues that ethnomusicology and queerness are founded upon destructive masculinity Reimagines the fates of both ethnomusicology and queerness This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext
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).

Klappentext

1. Introduction: Silencing.- 2. 'This is to Enrage You'.- 3. We Don't Need Another Hero.- 4. Street Cred and Locker Room Glances.- 5. Diverse People in Special Places.- 6. (No) Body/ (No) Homo .- 7. Affecting the Colonist.- 8. Non-fundamental Tones; or, The Pharmakon of Silence.- 9. Conclusion: 'Such People Do Not Exist'.

   Inhalt

   1. Introduction: Silencing.- 2. 'This is to Enrage You'.- 3. We Don't Need Another Hero.- 4. Street Cred and Locker Room Glances.- 5. Diverse People in Special Places.- 6. (No) Body/ (No) Homo .- 7. Affecting the Colonist.- 8. Non-fundamental Tones; or, The Pharmakon of Silence.- 9. Conclusion: 'Such People Do Not Exist'.