ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology is an in-depth survey of the moral challenges and imperatives of conducting research on people making music. It focuses on fundamental and compelling ethical questions that have challenged and shaped both the history of this discipline and its current practices. In 26 representative cases from across a broad spectrum of geographical, societal, and musical environments, authors collectively reflect on the impacts of ethnomusicological research, exploring the ways our work may instantiate privilege or risk bringing harm, as well as the means that are available to provide recognition, benefit, and reciprocation to the musicians and others who contribute to our studies. In a world where differing ethical values are often in conflict, and where music itself is meanwhile a powerful tool in projecting moral claims, we aim to uncover the conditions and consequences of the ethical choices we face as ethnomusicologists, thereby contributing to building a more engaged, restructured discipline and a more globally responsible music studies. The volume comprises four parts: (1) sound practices and philosophies of ethics; (2) fieldwork encounters; (3) environment, trauma, collaboration; and (4) research in public domains.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |15 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|13 pages
Ethics in Ethnomusicological Research
part I|83 pages
Sound Practices and Philosophies of Ethics
chapter 5|16 pages
Double the Danger in Writing
part II|81 pages
Fieldwork Encounters
chapter 12|11 pages
Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Safeguarding of the Indigenous Shona Mbira Music Heritage of Zimbabwe
chapter 13|12 pages
Don't Be Like the Jebarra
chapter 16|12 pages
“I Hope God Blesses You with a Beautiful Wife”
part III|73 pages
Environment, Trauma, Collaboration
chapter 21|12 pages
Collaborative Video-Making with Young Women in Ethiopia
chapter 23|13 pages
Arts, Organizations, and Ethnomusicology
part IV|69 pages
Research in Public Domains
chapter 29|14 pages
“A Week from Now, Will I Remember? Maybe…Maybe not”
part V|13 pages
Afterword