intimate entanglements in the ethnography of performance

<b>Honourable Mention for Society for Ethnomusicology - Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize</b><br><b></b><br><b>Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity intimacy and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings.</b><br><br>Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma systemic racism and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain trauma and violation whether physical spiritual intellectual or political.<br><br>Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic ethical and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent performative and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.