The first large-scale effort to queer musical fieldwork and expose new horizons of ethnomusicological scholarship, Queering the Field addresses ethnomusicology's normalized approaches to musical ethnography and investigates the sexual identities and modes of identification at play in the field.
CONTENTS
Dedication
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
1. Foreword
2. Introduction
Queering the Field: An Introduction
3. Framing Essay
Sounding Out: Theoretical Reflection on Queer Fieldnotes and Performance
4. Queer Silences
Uncomfortable Positions: Listening and Expertise in Queer Postcolonial Ethnomusicology
Queer in the Field? What Happens When Neither 'Queer' Nor 'The Field' is Clearly Defined?
5. Out/In the Field
'I Don't Think We Are Safe Around You': Queering Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
Outing the Methodological No-No: Translating Queer Space to Field Space
Queerness, Ambiguity, Ethnography
Understanding the Gay Ambiente in Cuba: Queer Fieldwork in a Queer Field
6. Queerness in Action
Her Tall, Slender Frame: (Con)Figuring Hijra Music and Dance Through Documentary Filmmaking
Queer Hip Hop or Hip-Hop Queerness? Toward a Queer of Color Music Studies
Going Through the Motions: Transgender Performance in Topeng Cirebon from North Java, Indonesia
The Unbearable Bearing of Tradition, or, A Fable of Belonging
7. Institutions and Intersections
The Lion, The Witch, and the Closet: Heteronormative Institutional Research and Performance Practices, and the Queering of 'Traditions'
'I'm not Gay, I'm Black': Exploring the Assumptions and Limitations that Underlie the Normative Queer Gaze in a Panamanian Dance-Drama
8. Who's Queer (W)Here?
Self and/as Subject: Respectability, Abjection, and the Alterity of Studying What You Are
Straight to the Heart: Heteronormativity, Flirtation, and Autoethnography at Home and Away
I, Spy: Silence, Violence, and the Ethics of Virtual Ethnography
9. Clubs, Bars, Scenes
The Queer Concerns of Nightlife Fieldwork
'Eat the Other': Ethnography, Power, and Desire
Men Created Homophobia, God Created Transformistas: Saluting the Orishas in a Cuban Gay Bar
On Serendipity: Sonic Pleasures and Fleshy Archives of Sensual Ethnography
Works Cited
Index