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This two-volume collection transforms our understanding of the discipline of ethnomusicology by exploring how ethnomusicologists can contribute to positive social and environmental change within institutional frameworks. The first volume focuses on ethical practice and collaboration and offers strategies for promoting institutional and methodological change.
List of contents
- Ethnomusicological Praxis: An Introduction
- Beverley Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
- Chapter 1: Changing Praxis and Ethical Practice: Lessons for Ethnomusicology from Applied Anthropology
- Tony Seeger
- Chapter 2: International Council for Traditional Music and Society for Ethnomusicology: A Reflection through Two Complementary Lenses
- Svanibor Pettan
- Chapter 3: Collaborative Ethnography: Trends, Developments, and Opportunities
- Luke Eric Lassiter
- Chapter 4: Sincerely Outspoken: Towards a Critical Activist Ethnomusicology
- David A. McDonald
- Chapter 5: "How Is that Going to Help Anyone?" A Critical Activist Ethnomusicology
- Oliver Y. Shao
- Chapter 6: Praxis through Honk: The Rise of Politically Active Street Brass Bands in the United States
- Becky Liebman
- Chapter 7: Zafé Fatra (The Affair of Trash) and the Affair of Scholarly Engagement: Can Music (and Music Scholarship) Really Clean Up the Streets of Port-au-Prince?
- Rebecca Dirksen
- Chapter 8: Engaged Activist Research: Dialogical Interventions Towards Revitalizing the Chinese Glove Puppet Theatre in Penang
- Tan Sooi Beng
- Chapter 9: On Not Knowing: Academically Based Community Service, Faith Based Organizations, and the Transformation of Ethnomusicological Praxis
- Carol Muller and Nina Öhman
- Chapter 10: Performing Transitional Justice: Song, Truth-telling and Memory in South Sudan
- Angela Impey
- Chapter 11: Witnessing: A Methodology
- Deborah Wong
About the author
Beverley Diamond is Professor Emerita at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she served as the first Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology and founded and directed the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP) from 2003-15. Diamond is known for her feminist music research and her work on Canadian cultural historiography and Indigenous music cultures in North America and Scandinavia.
Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she founded and directs the Ethnomusicology Institute - Center for the Study of Music and Dance (INET-md). Her publications focus on cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity, heritagization, and music and conflict in Portugal, Egypt, and Oman.
Summary
This two-volume collection transforms our understanding of the discipline of ethnomusicology by exploring how ethnomusicologists can contribute to positive social and environmental change within institutional frameworks. The first volume focuses on ethical practice and collaboration and offers strategies for promoting institutional and methodological change.
Additional text
A testament to the labor of activism, advocacy, and community involvement, Transforming Ethnomusicology lays the groundwork for contemporary practices in applied research that frame the multidimensional roles of scholarly involvement in music-driven social justice — a timely contribution to the field.
