Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume II - Political, Social & Ecological Issues

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 second volume focuses on the intersection of ecological and social issues and features a variety of Indigenous perspectives

List of contents

• Ethnomusicological Praxis: An Introduction


• Beverley Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco


• Chapter 1: A Sound Economy


• Jeff Todd Titon


• Chapter 2: Music for Global Human Development


• Michael Frishkopf


• Chapter 3: Reengaging Sound Praxis in the Real World: Politico-Epistemological Dimensions of Dialogue and Participation in Knowledge Production


• Samuel Araujo


• Chapter 4: Silenced Registers of Ethnomusicological Academic Labor under Neoliberalism


• Ana Hofman


• Chapter 5: Sonic Mapping and Critical Citizenship: Reflections on LimerickSoundscapes


• Aileen Dillane and Tony Langlois


• Chapter 6: The Earth Is (Still) Our Mother: Traversing Indigenous Landscapes through Sacred Geographies of Song


• Chad Hamill


• Chapter 7: The Modernity of the Songlines


• Rhoda Roberts


• Chapter 8: Music Endangerment, Repatriation and Intercultural Collaboration in an Australian Discomfort Zone


• Sally Treloyn and Rona Goonginda Charles


• Chapter 9: Dancing Domba: Intersections of Ethnomusicology, Music Education, and Research with Children and Young People


• Andrea Emberly and Mudzunga Junniah Davhula


• Chapter 10: Ethical Friction: IRBs, Ethnolmusicological Ethics, and Music in an American Jail


• Andy McGraw


• Chapter 11: Ethnomusicology and the Meeting of Knowledges in Music: The Inclusion of Masters of Traditional Musics as Lecturers in Higher Education Institutions


• José Jorge de Carvalho

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

For decades, ethnomusicologists across the world have considered how to affect positive change for the communities they work with. Through illuminating case studies and reflections by a diverse array of scholars and practitioners, Transforming Ethnomusicology aims to both expand dialogues about social engagement within ethnomusicology and, at the same time, transform how we understand ethnomusicology as a discipline.

The second volume of Transforming Ethnomusicology takes as a point of departure the recognition that colonial and environmental damages are grounded in historical and institutional failures to respect the land and its peoples. Featuring Indigenous and other perspectives from Brazil, North America, Australia, Africa, and Europe this volume critically engages with how ethnomusicologists can support marginalized communities in sustaining their musical knowledge and threatened geographies.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Beverley (Professor Emerita of Ethnomusic Diamond
• Assisted by: Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco (Editor), Beverley Diamond (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780197517567
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751756-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Sheet music